UNIX is any operating system based on the core system calls that made up v6 or v7 unix in the late '70s. That's the last time there was one UNIX. The tree of UNIX has spread since then, with grafts and new plantings and runners and seedlings and all the agricultural metaphors you could want. But that's where it starts. open close read write pipe fork exec stat ....
Posts by Peter da Silva
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Apple macOS 15 Sequoia is officially UNIX. If anyone cares...
What the @#$%&!? Microsoft bans nudity, swearing in Skype, emails, Office 365 docs
Five lightweight Linux desktop worlds for extreme open-sourcers
iPhones make calls without permission, researcher warns
Man buys $1,000 worth of iPhone pixels by accident
That's how I bought an iPod Shuffle
I wish Amazon would enforce their stupid "one click" patent*, because "one click" purchasing is a really bad idea. Now, in fairness, Apple does give you a grace period to back out and I decided that I really did want the shuffle after all... so I decided not to back out. But I turned off "one click" regardless.
A friend of mine didn't notice and bought himself a printer that way.
Where's the icon for Steve Jobs with horns, by the way? He needs equal time with Gates and Ballmer. :)
*Well, not really, but I do suspect that patenting really bad ideas to keep people from implementing them might be the only way to make lemonade from the US patent orifice's lemons.
Microsoft urges Windows users to shun 'carpet bombing' Safari

Microsoft needs to get their own house in order
It's a minor issue compared to a number of others that ALL browsers on Windows have. If Microsoft is serious about security then they need to:
1. Immediately transition away from ActiveX, with as short a timeframe as possible.
2. Replace ShellExecute() with something similar to UNIX's exec(). They already HAVE the code, in the POSIX subsystem.
3. Eliminate "security zones" as a security model - there must be no circumstance in which the location of an object named in a web page automatically grants it privileges.
4. Provide an alternate API for browsers to use to find and run helper applications that is not based on the desktop helper application bindings.
All four of these are far bigger problems than having files downloaded without a prompt. Not only do they all provide paths to direct execution of untrusted code without user interaction, but they have all BEEN used for that purpose hundreds of times over the past decade.
I am not sure it's possible to implement a really secure browser on Windows without completely bypassing all of Microsoft's recommended APIs.