| 1. |
It was developed and is owned by Microsoft Incorporation. |
It was developed and is owned by The NetBSD Foundation. |
| 2. |
It was launched in 1985. |
It was launched in 1993. |
| 3. |
It is not an open source operating system. |
It is an open source operating system. |
| 4. |
Its target systems types are workstation, personal computers, media center, tablets and embedded systems. |
Its target system types are NAS, server, workstation and embedded systems. |
| 5. |
Computer architectures supported by Windows are IA-32, x86-64, IA-64, ARM, Alpha, MIPS and PowerPC. |
Computer architectures supported by NetBSD are IA-32, x86-64, ARM, MIPS, PowerPC and sparc64. |
| 6. |
Its kernel type is Hybrid with modules. |
Its kernel type is Monolithic with modules. |
| 7. |
Its native APIs are Win32 and NT API. |
Its native APIs are BSD-POSIX. |
| 8. |
It has the preferred license Proprietary and Source available. |
It has the preferred license of BSD. |
| 9. |
The non-native APIs supported through its subsystems are DOS API, Win16, POSIX and .NET. |
The non-native APIs supported through its subsystems are Linux and others. |
| 10. |
File systems supported by Windows are NTFS, FAT, ISO 9660, UDF, HFS+, FATX and HFS. |
File systems supported by NetBSD are UFS, UFS2, ext2, FAT, ISO 9660, NFS and LFS. |
| 11. |
Its package management is MSI or custom installer. |
Its package management is pkgsrc. |
| 12. |
Its update management is Windows Update. |
Its update management is by source or by binary. |