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Standardizing on Windows as a deployment platform has known costs and benefits. One of the costs is in largely losing out on the traditional UNIX software ecosystem.

There are some OSS projects that maintain first-class Windows support, but nobody should be surprised that when they find out that Windows is poorly supported by an OSS ecosystem that is predominately focused on producing software for UNIX descendent systems.

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Nobody is saying that they should standardize on Windows, just support it. The way Microsoft did the patch, using a cross-platform library that has support from another popular project, is the perfect way to address this issue.

I was referring to the IT choice to standardize on Windows as a deployment platform for your organization.

As for Reddis, the cost of supporting another operating system -- especially one as different as Windows -- is quite high. If you don't use Windows, there's little cost justification for doing so.

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