Windows 10: A comfort blanket for Microsoft's biz users

Um, that's being generous. I would have categorized it more as "leverage their desktop monopoly to force users to become accustomed to their phone O.S."

To paraphrase Lilly Tomlin - "We're Microsoft, we don't have to care".

> To paraphrase Lilly Tomlin - "We're Microsoft, we don't have to care".

MS has lost so much of their former leverage, and that Lilly Tomlin quote explains it precisely.

The hololens glasses look quite good though

That's the funny thing -- I hear that MS peripheral hardware is usually* pretty decent, or at least better than average.

*) web-cams excepted -- they're usually "Win-cams".

As much as the bulk of the Windows API is probably held together with bailing wire and string, the threading model is actually quite impressive. I did a comparison paper between the Windows threading API and the Posix pthreads, and Windows threading model compares quite favorably. I had to actually give it some begrudging respect. However, the incompatibility between the Windows threading model and pthreads helps with Windows E.E.E (embrace, extend, extinguish). While it's trivial to get pthreads to work in a Windows environment, it's more problematic to get Windows threading to work in a Linux environment (although there is a library called pevents). That means it's easy (or easier) to port Linux stuff to Windows, but more difficult to do it the other way around...