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In 2000 MS killed their consumer-oriented OS: Windows 95/98/Millenium and focused on a more business-facing product, based on Windows NT. It looks like they ar
by alexro 15y ago
In 2000 MS killed their consumer-oriented OS: Windows 95/98/Millenium and focused on a more business-facing product, based on Windows NT.
It looks like they are now introducing a for-consumer version again, this time probably with a really consumer-friendly setup, where there should be not too much for the end user to worry about (and change).
- tptacek 15y agoEhh. You really think Windows XP is a "business-facing" OS? It accounted for the overwhelming majority of all home computer installs during the time it was sold. The internals of the OS aren't what makes it "business-" or "consumer-" facing. iOS's internals are more sophisticated than Win2k's were.
- alexro 15y agonetworking and account management is what makes XP more pro-business than pro-consumer. And all the servers - Windows 2000 to 2008 are based on the same kernel basically.
- mahmud 15y agoAccount management had everything to do with security & privilege containment. People got tired of every exe running in ring-zero and wreaking havoc. To authorize actions they needed authentication, so .. accounts. Multi-user operation and remote access were just fringe benefactors of the security. The system itself needed delegation of roles to operate safely. The fact that networking was becoming so widespread forced them to go for a full account management, instead of BeOS style dual-user mode.