What is the basic difference between unix and windows
operating systems?

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / ahamed rasik

Window is more and more flexible to new user compare than unix

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / nirosha

unix is open source
windows is not a open source

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / cyrus

windows supports removable media.UNIX does not support
removable media.

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / pratul

unix will not be affected by virus as most of the viruses
are developed under platform of windows.and even unix is
command line user interface

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / bandi sreekanth

windows most probably grafhical interface and unix always command line interface

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / uma shankar pandey

Windows have a recycle bin where store the deleted things
while Unix have not .

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / ashish lalawat

Windows is mouse dominated (everything that we can do by
mouse can't be done by a keyboard)
Unix is keyboard dominated ( everything that we can do by a
keyboard can't be done by a mouse) ex. refreshing.

Unix requires much authentication (password) for most of the
purposes like updating etc. whereas Windows does not.

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / nitin

Unix consume more power
Window consme less power in compare to unix

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / sujatha

Unix file system is hierarchical based ,a root contain the
total structure of the file system.

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What is the basic difference between unix and windows operating systems?..

Answer / sharmila

windows is gii based where as unix is clui based

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