Microsoft have a product that provides a Unix-like environment, including command-shell and standard unix utilities (like Cygwin) and also an NFS client/server and a swag of tools for administrators working in a hetrogenous environment.
Given that it provides a whole bunch of standard Unix services to Windows users and to Windows applications, would you call it:
A. Unix Services for Windows, or
B. Windows Services for Unix?
Really, think about it for a second.
Believe it or not, MS went for option B.
I cannot imagine what argument they might try to make that option B is better than option A. Yes, the product does provide some Windows services to Unix, but it is more about providing Unix services to the Windows operating System, to Windows administrators and to Windows applications.
Undoubtedly there were solid, market-driven reasons for their choice but that doesn’t make their mis-representation any less.
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