Re: Microsoft GUIs (was: The end to all language wars and the great unity API to come!) (OT)

2011-07-05 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 9:13 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2011.07.05 09:31 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > > I've said for a while that Microsoft could do far worse than to turn > > Windows into a GUI that sits on top of a Unix-derived kernel. They > > won't do it, though, because it would be tantamount

Re: Microsoft GUIs (was: The end to all language wars and the great unity API to come!) (OT)

2011-07-05 Thread Chris Angelico
On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Andrew Berg wrote: > On 2011.07.05 09:31 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: >> I've said for a while that Microsoft could do far worse than to turn >> Windows into a GUI that sits on top of a Unix-derived kernel. They >> won't do it, though, because it would be tantamount to

Microsoft GUIs (was: The end to all language wars and the great unity API to come!) (OT)

2011-07-05 Thread Andrew Berg
On 2011.07.05 09:31 PM, Chris Angelico wrote: > I've said for a while that Microsoft could do far worse than to turn > Windows into a GUI that sits on top of a Unix-derived kernel. They > won't do it, though, because it would be tantamount to admitting both > that Unix is superior to Windows, AND t