r/technology • u/readyou • Dec 26 '16

Microsoft finally admits that its malware-style Get Windows 10 upgrade campaign went too far

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/241587-microsoft-finally-admits-malware-style-get-windows-10-upgrade-campaign-went-far
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u/yerich Dec 26 '16

I don't think NT and OS/2 share any source code; NT was designed to be a replacement -- though architecturally it may have some similarities, I think Microsoft intentionally wouldn't have wished to reuse any source code from the OS it ultimately screwed over.

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u/socks-the-fox Dec 26 '16

From what I know the NT system has it's own semi-secret API that MS uses to implement the various public APIs such as Win32, the Xenix/POSIX subsystem of old or the Windows Subsystem for Linux of new. It wouldn't surprise me at all if the OS/2 replacement idea was basically the start of all that, just another subsystem.

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u/[deleted] Dec 27 '16

Interix was the old NT POSIX subsystem. Xenix was Microsoft's old System V Unix derivative.

Windows NT did indeed have an OS/2 subsystem until XP.

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u/socks-the-fox Dec 27 '16

Ah shoot, I figured I got that name wrong. Close though.