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by drewcoo 1432 days ago
The design is very different than *nix. The entire ecosystem is different. I think experience with both is eye-opening. There may even be a couple of grizzled old graybeards left who followed DaveC over from DEC. I don't have a clue now.

If you can read and enjoy these books, consider it:

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/resources/wind...

The ugh!: You will be a tiny cog in a big machine, spending very little time writing code, mostly banging your head over someone else's bugs. And M$FT still has a certain stink to it these days and that may cling to you.