Evolution of shells in Linux (developerWorks)

Windows exists in a parallel universe where at some moment soon a great wizard will appear and banish everything outside the Basic Multilingual Plane so that they can go back to UCS-2 where things were simpler (yet conveniently incompatible with stodgy old Unix).

People who are never going to be happy about LLP64, UTF-16, or various other arbitrary yet defensible differences from Unix will never be comfortable on Windows. This isn't even a religious war, it's some fundamental cultural difference just like the relationship between directions and time.

For me "bringing forward" a meeting will always make it sooner, and UTF-8 will always be the more intuitive and sensible encoding. So no Windows for me.