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IE relies on mshtml which relies on COM which is basically, well, core Win32. IE is also the largest OLE container.

But that was a decision they deliberately took. At one point, IE had versions for UNIX and Mac.

And Redis relies on POSIX semantics, which is... er... core POSIX?

Microsoft does have a third option, you know. One many of us would love to see happen: real, first-class POSIX support in Windows.