> To me, this makes it sound like Microsoft is slowly starting to join the rest of planet earth, and adding features to its OS kernel to make it more Unix-like
Could you be more specific, what "features" precisely? Windows NT already takes a lot of concepts from traditional UNIX kernels and builds on them (unlike, for example, Windows 9x).
> From what I remember, Windows Server is already a step in that direction, but Microsoft hasn't advertised much of that functionality so far, maybe in order to maintain customer lock in.
Could you be more specific, I know a lot about modern Linux and Windows Server, and that comment is mysterious to me. Are you talking about the deprecated UNIX Services for Windows which has existed for well over fifteen years?
> Could you be more specific, what "features" precisely? Windows NT already takes a lot of concepts from traditional UNIX kernels and builds on them (unlike, for example, Windows 9x).
