Better Unix on Windows? (Score 1)

Our scientific application runs on Windows, Mac, and Unix. We recently started the port to Windows, and I have to say that Microsoft Services for Unix proved to be completely useless -- it has virtually zero compatibility with Linux, and even after installing a whole whack of third party downloads to get all the normal tools installed (ex. GNU make, etc.), I still couldn't use it because of missing things. Like, it didn't even have the BASH shell, and even when I manually installed that, it wasn't configured properly. I don't have time for this kind of nonsense. We eventually abandoned it, and are using CYGWIN. You know, this is frankly pathetic.

Microsoft should take a clue from how Amazon sponsers thousands of other booksellers -- if Microsoft embraced Unix/Linux, instead of merely tolerating it and claiming to offer interoperability while really not doing so, then it would probably be much further ahead.

Whatever happened to "embrace and extend"????