It really doesn't. Microsoft employs a guy named Dave Cutler who is credited with leading the development of Windows NT in the late 80s/early 90s. They hired him from DEC, where he... is credited with co-leading a research project that later became VMS. If you go look at OpenVMS programming manuals, you will see process creation calls (e.g. SYS$CREPRC, LIB$SPAWN) that look and behave a lot like CreateProcess().
I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.
I don't think we should ever forget how MS behaved through the mid 2000s. But we don't live in that world anymore, they aren't (capable of being) that company anymore, and I think we're at a point where dismissing research because of a connection to MS is not protecting anyone from anything.
I think it's well-known that Windows NT took a lot of ideas from VMS.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Cutler https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/desktop/api/process... https://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/v73/5932/5932... http://www.itec.suny.edu/scsys/vms/OVMSDOC073/v73/5841/5841p...
I don't think we should ever forget how MS behaved through the mid 2000s. But we don't live in that world anymore, they aren't (capable of being) that company anymore, and I think we're at a point where dismissing research because of a connection to MS is not protecting anyone from anything.