85% or more of the cybersecurity market is about, and because of, Windows.
Srs, if Windows wasn’t used at all, cybersecurity would be as big an industry as Etsy.
Windows tries to mimic Unix for all its “important” features, but it isn’t. It’s a surveillance slop sundae on top of decades of organic growth on top of bad decisions based on DOS. And it’s made them one of the richest companies in the history of the world.
Story time:
There was another operating system very much like Windows called OS/2. This operating system was made by IBM and Microsoft. It even had DOS and NT kernel compatibility and is where the NT kernel came from. While MS and IBM were working on OS/2 MS secretly developed Windows and made deals with third-party PC manufacturers like HP and Compaq for them to run Windows and not OS/2. Despite the fact that Microsoft was where it was then because IBM had chosen DOS for its PC operating system until that time.
OS/2 still got an interesting life though. It was widely used as an embedded operating system well into the 2000s. If you ever used an ATM or cash register in the early 2000s you almost certainly used OS/2.
Windows did not get where it is today through organic growth. It did so by standing on the shoulders of giants and dealing under the table.
Linux is the biggest but the big customers have dedicated teams, have strong enough teams that getting in isn’t worth as much effort, and can push fixes upstream.
85% or more of the cybersecurity market is about, and because of, Windows.
Srs, if Windows wasn’t used at all, cybersecurity would be as big an industry as Etsy.
Windows tries to mimic Unix for all its “important” features, but it isn’t. It’s a surveillance slop sundae on top of decades of organic growth on top of bad decisions based on DOS. And it’s made them one of the richest companies in the history of the world.
Story time: There was another operating system very much like Windows called OS/2. This operating system was made by IBM and Microsoft. It even had DOS and NT kernel compatibility and is where the NT kernel came from. While MS and IBM were working on OS/2 MS secretly developed Windows and made deals with third-party PC manufacturers like HP and Compaq for them to run Windows and not OS/2. Despite the fact that Microsoft was where it was then because IBM had chosen DOS for its PC operating system until that time.
OS/2 still got an interesting life though. It was widely used as an embedded operating system well into the 2000s. If you ever used an ATM or cash register in the early 2000s you almost certainly used OS/2.
Windows did not get where it is today through organic growth. It did so by standing on the shoulders of giants and dealing under the table.
Don’t forget how they patent trolled the entire Linux community for more than a decade and that Novell-Suse helped them.
The joke was that they called it OS/2 because it was half an operating system.
I guess people would then make efforts to breach systems elsewhere, but because windows is big it is currently the most targeted.
Yes, but maybe?
I mean, how much ofnthe server market is Linux vs Windows? And Phones.
Limix is literally the most used OS. Maybe not for desktop daily driver use. But it still isn’t breeched as much as Windows.
That’s true to a point.
Linux is the biggest but the big customers have dedicated teams, have strong enough teams that getting in isn’t worth as much effort, and can push fixes upstream.
But most data is on Linux.
Like every cloud for instance.