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Linus Torvalds and Bill Gates Meet for the First Time Ever
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I don't think you remember how insanely terrible Windows was in the 90s.
I'm not sure that the alternatives were any better, everything was terrible back then.
Yeah, probably not. But the idea that Windows won because of how great it was just doesn't hold up
Luckily they learned from it and redesigned the kernel from scratch -- hold on, my producer's telling me that no, it's still the NT kernel under there. Outstanding.
Most users neither know nor care what that is.
good talk
They might care when their os showing the same problems it did 30 years ago