Microsoft Analyzed Linux and Mac OS X Tiger When Building Windows Vista
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| Microsoft has admitted to having observed what the competition has to
| offer, and integrated the lessons learned into the development of Windows
| Vista. For Microsoft, when it was building Windows Vista, the grass
| was greener on the other side of the operating system's kernel. And
| the Redmond Company was not shy at getting some inspiration from
| several Linux versions and Mac OS X Tiger.
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http://news.softpedia.com/news/Microsoft-Analyzed-Linux-and-Mac-OS-X-Tiger-when-Building-Windows-Vista-54743.shtml
It investigates rival platforms for other reasons too (see below).
Related:
FLOSS Weekly 14: Jeremy Allison of Samba
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| 'In the section of the interview from around 33m30s to 39m00 Jeremy
| Allison reports how he was told that the Microsoft team implementing
| SMB2 were ordered to "f**k with Samba".'
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http://www.twit.tv/floww14
Longhorn server and Ubuntu do they still play together?
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| There real question however is can linux boxes still join and
| authenticate against Active Directory domains running at Native
| Longhorn Server levels. Well the answer a non surprising NO!
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http://odin749.blogspot.com/2007/05/longhorn-server-and-ubuntu-active.html
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