[kpil]

Since it took them 20 years to make a half-decent shell and 30 years how to figure out how stdout should work: no they had no clue.

Maybe they knew how a kernel should work though, but weren't the NT guys old VMS guys? That's a totally un-unixy OS actually.

[oblio]

1. They didn't care about command line tools, in many ways (usability) they're a huge regression. After all, it was in the name of the product: Windows.

2. Who says that in-band communication like Unix is doing is necessarily better? See pastejacking and other shenanigans.

[c487bd62]

It's all about pushing Azure and dedicating resources to said goals