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Unix was designed to do exactly what it's done best; I.E. Run the telephonic networks. AT&T was the donor of BSD, and while they could donate the OS code to selected American universities; they could not market it because of DOD constraints. The C programming language was invented to facilitate the development of UNIX at Bell Labs.
Unix and POSIX OS's, along with Netware, formed the only real threat to IBM's dominance of the small business office. IBM made the mistake of severely crippling their early PC offerings to avoid impacting their mini-computer business. The clone market explosion, and the resulting PC LAN explosion almost killed IBM.
Windows was developed as the GUI component of OS/2 (the OS/2 project was internally described as "Windows - New Technology"). IBM had a few problems with making the new OS non-competitive with it's mini computer offerings and delayed its release several times. Microsoft exercised a clause in the development contract that allowed them to use the GUI code and their peer networking code with MS-DOS. IBM sued in response to the success of Windows and lost everything except the right to bundle Windows with OS/2, and a smaller portion of the royalty revenue, until 1995. Interestingly enough, IBM lost the rights to the NDIS network drivers, and delayed their entry into the exploding LAN market at a point in time when their very existence was threatened.
Apple, X windows, and Microsoft borrowed heavily from the research work done at Xeroxparc, and none of them can or have laid claim to the common elements of their respective GUI's.
ActiveX, DCOM and similar concepts are inherently less secure than any strict interpretation of the Client-Server model (especially with Terminal clients).
With internetworking, Microsoft has maintained dominance by EXCEEDING the international draft specifications and exploiting the added functionality within their own product family (check the MS implementations of Javascript, CSS, and DHTML and compare them with the standards). ActiveX was a published Microsoft open specification and was never part of the body of code that they did not want to publish. All client side code is potentially dangerous when given inappropiate access to the host system. The newer forms of malware abuse what would have been inaccessible features of some MS products.
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It looks more and more...  Rick_K | 04/25/05
Your post suggests you don't trust Microsoft.  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/25/05
Darn, and those are the ones  FilledOut | 04/25/05
This is one I don't mind they scale back...  BitTwiddler | 04/25/05
You're right  alterego_z | 04/25/05
George Orwell, Not George Orville  nucrash | 04/25/05
Ouch!  alterego_z | 04/25/05
Have a second cup.  Anton Philidor | 04/25/05
A line of blow folds in nicely with it too  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
It's DEFINITELY about security... Microsoft's!  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/25/05
Past Court Decisions.....and negative impact  thomgood | 04/25/05
Microsoft had security problems going all the way back to '96.  B.O.F.H. | 04/25/05
History lesson  thomgood | 04/26/05
hard to implement a hardware based solution?  linuxoverwindows | 04/26/05
Hardware based solutions and the Marketplace  thomgood | 04/26/05
Really, it looks...  Rick_K | 04/25/05
A Palladium in yer bung!  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
one thing  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
twice the ram...  Arm A. Geddon | 04/25/05
Still waiting.  nucrash | 04/25/05
i will fill in the blank...  linuxoverwindows | 04/26/05
Trust Microsoft..?  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/25/05
They said they would get rid of BSOD...  nucrash | 04/25/05
You can stll see the BSOD in Windows XP  theding0 | 04/25/05
it will be a nucrash  linuxoverwindows | 04/26/05
Longhotn is still coming trust us  crocd | 04/25/05
Will it come before Bruce Willis saves the world?  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/25/05
Encrypted Filesystems?  jstead1 | 04/25/05
All part of Microsoft's continued marketing deception..  Xunil_Sierutuf | 04/25/05
It can  rpmyers1 | 04/25/05
In other words...  nucrash | 04/25/05
A nice Stiffhorn in the rump  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
Sorry, Passport is down.  nucrash | 04/25/05
Well you just enjoy whatever floats your boat  FilledOut | 04/25/05
Great News!  Roger Ramjet | 04/25/05
not only that..  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
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yeah  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
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Hofstadter Inc.  Techscan | 04/25/05
Actually  skeptic tank | 04/25/05
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Now there's an idea!  Jeff Spicoli | 04/25/05
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