What Differentiates Linux from Windows?

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Thursday March 11, 2004 @07:15AM from the besides-the-random-crashes dept.

tail.man sent in a Linux Insider piece about the difference between Linux and Windows. Quoting the synopsis "So, what's really the difference between a Unix variant like Linux and any Windows OS? It's that Microsoft reacts to marketing pressure to make design decisions favoring running a few processes faster but then finds itself forced first to layer in backward compatibility and then to engage in a patch-and-kludge upgrade process until the code becomes so bloated, slow and unreliable that wholesale replacement is again called for."

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Re:The Difference... by BHearsum · 2004-03-11 07:50 · Score: 2, Redundant

As a corporation, Microsoft's primary focus is profit. This means that being an 'effective OS' will take a backseat to profit. This doesn't mean it's impossible to do both, but I'm sure that most people here will agree that Microsoft hasn't accomplished both as of yet.