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I read something like this and think... really MS should follow in Apple's footsteps and build their new OS on the linux kernel, as Apple built their's on the FreeBSD kernel... It could work

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Unless Microsoft is prepared to invest a lot of money and time in preserving backwards compatibility with existing Windows applications, I can't see it being met with anything but resistance.

Throw Windows 8 in a VM and establish a transitional API. Apple wrote this book over a decade ago.

It's still pointless though. I don't think the kernel is Windows' biggest problem, or even necessarily a problem.

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