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nialv7 21 hours ago

Unironically, yes. It's time that Microsoft taste their own medicine of embrace, extend, and extinguish.

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qingcharles 13 hours ago | parent [-]

Here me out: Microsoft switches to Linux kernel for Windows 13.

(also Microsoft has been heavily embracing Linux and open source in the last decade)

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theandrewbailey 11 hours ago | parent | next [-]

When WSL first came out, I realized that Windows might be Linux + Wine in 20 or 30 years.

Nowadays, with the Windows team barely able to produce a functional UI, what's happening with the NT kernel? Is it all graybeards back there? When they retire, the stability of Windows going to be in trouble, which is important for the things that really pull in the money. It'll get real bad, then they'll give up and move to an open source base, just like Edge.

	▲	p_ing 10 hours ago \| parent [-]
		The NT kernel continues to evolve. The recent examples I can think of are VBS, HCVI, and Kernel DMA Protection. No reason to dump a very good kernel.

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p_ing 10 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

Why would you want to switch to in many cases, an inferior kernel? NTOS is the golden piece of Windows -- it's Win32 that's hot garbage.