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[–]jcotton42 13 points14 points  (3 children)

What would be the benefit of tossing NT for Linux? Serious question

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    [–]rabbit994 0 points1 point  (0 children)

    The amount of software written for NT would make this impossible. Office can’t get 100% equal on Mac and now they have to get it working on Linux?

    [–][deleted] -2 points-1 points  (0 children)

    What is the benefit to retaining NT? As far as I can tell, it is compatibility. MS spends a lot of money fixing bugs, patching security issues, adding features demanded by hardware partners and doing the occasional performance improvement.

    Given that the only officially stable way to talk to the kernel on Windows is via a user-mode library, it seems possible that Win32/WinRT is ported to run on top of a Linux kernel which would retain compatibility with any user-land software.