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What is it's background and "inspiration" if any? Does it by any chance have fragments of Unix DNA deep within it but not disclosed for whatever reasons?
No it wasn't.
MS-DOS was a renamed and ported to IBM PC clone of CP/M OS bought from Seattle Computer Products by Microsoft (this goes to all Windows from beginning and to Windows 98/Me)
If talking about Windows based on NT, Microsoft hired a team of engineers (headed by Dave Cutler, one of DEC's VMS operating system developer) from DEC company. He was told to develop a 32-bit OS with supporting the OS/2 API. So at the end, new OS (NT OS/2) was really similar to VMS, and later, based on this new NT OS/2, Windwows NT 3.1 was released in 1993.
P.S. This information was taken from a book I've read -- Modern Operating Systems, 3-th edition. Author: Andrew S. Tanenbaum.
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I bought a Win 10 Pro retail version. Installed it on a VM on computer #1. I want to move the VM to computer #2 for a few months, then I'll want to move it to computer #3. Can I do that license wise?
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Back story if anybody cares: My 4 year old Macbook Air was clinging to life by it's fingernails, it finally died. I bought Win 10 and installed it as VM on my Wife's newer Air. I just put a new logic board in my Old Air and want to move the Win 10 to it. If Apple ever actually releases the new Macbook Pros I'll be getting one of them and would like to transfer the VM and license a 3rd time... :)
yes you can do this licence wise so long as you never have it installed on one computer at once, the windows 10 licence agreement states that you may move it from one machine to another as long as it is never installed on more than one at once.
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I don't have Hyper-V available as one of the choices in Windows Features in Windows 8.1 (not the pro version). Any idea how could I have it?
My computer supports virtualization and virtualization is already enabled.
I have checked this question before but there's no real solution for Windows8.1.
If there's no viable solution, how can I update/upgrade to Windows8.1 pro from Windows8.1 home edition?
Hyper-V is a feature of the Pro/Enterprise Editions of Windows 8/8.1 and not of the Core Edition. You have to buy an upgrade key to go to Pro.
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I recently had to enable VT for windows7 since I want to run ubuntu on vmware so I was wondering why isnt it enabled by default is it some kind of security issue or just not necessary for the average user?
There are several reasons, including "security" and "performance":
https://superuser.com/questions/291340/why-do-pc-manufacturers-disable-advanced-cpu-features-in-the-bios-by-default
http://www.vmware.com/pdf/asplos235_adams.pdf
Intel virtualization technology can get hardware intensive and although the software requirement is low (Windows Vista) only modern CPUs made by INTEL ONLY such as Intel i7 support it.
Not all windows computers have an Intel CPU though (a good amount of them do). The only people that use the VTX technology are developers and people who want to run a different operating system than their computer came with, so not everyone. As for security issue, I'm not sure but it can get very RAM intensive. (i.e. the Android HAXM for developers has a default RAM usage of 2GB, and the minimum is 512 MB!).
If you want to know more you can check out this article
or the website:
http://www.intel.com/content/www/us/en/virtualization/virtualization-technology/intel-virtualization-technology.html
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How is Windows CE distinct from the other desktop Windows?
Quote from Wiki:
Windows CE is a distinct operating system and kernel, rather than a
trimmed-down version of desktop Windows.
Can anyone please explain?
Kernel is the central piece of any operating system which is manages every aspect of a operating system.
So each operating systems like Unix, Windows have their own kernel which makes it different form each other. Similarly, Windows CE is different from your normal personal computer versions of operating system
Personal computing OS may include Windows 7, Windows 8, Windows XP etc
But Windows CE is not another version of the above mentioned Operating Systems, but a different one. This compact edition is specifically designed for a particular task may be like Car Computer, TV, etc..
By Trimmed down it tries to convey you that this Kernel cannot help with all tasks that your desktop can do and also its size is possibly less than that of your normal desktop OS
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I have read that the public beta version of Windows 7 has an expiration on it, but does the MSDN Premium also expire on the same date?
And if so, do you think that we might see a newer version before the expiration on MSDN?
For the speed improvements alone I am contemplating moving my development PC to Windows 7 over Windows Vista, stability issues aside, I am an early adopter anyway and expect issues with beta operating systems.
As I have done for a while with VStudio 10 CTP, you have the possibility to change the clock on you virtual machine when you start it. In my case, when I lunche VS10, I settle my virtual machine's clock to 11/1/2008 - and it's still running !
My MSDN version of Windows 7 says:
"Evaluation copy. Expires 7/1/2009 5:59 PM"
I imagine that they'll have another version posted by then - mabye even the RTM if we get really lucky.