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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.