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ZDNet: “Unix Beats Windows”–Says Microsoft!

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Nov 9, 2005

“Ok, that headline may be a bit overblown–but Microsoft
Research has released part of a report on the ‘Singularity’ kernel
they’ve been working on as part of their planned shift to network
computing. The report includes some performance comparisons that
show Singularity beating everything else on a 1.8Ghz AMD Athlon
based machine.

“What’s noteworthy about it is that Microsoft compared
Singularity to FreeBSD and Linux as well as Windows/XP–and almost
every result shows Windows losing to the two Unix variants…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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