I've long toyed with the idea that Microsoft could release a desktop Linux. Now I've started taking that idea more seriously - with a twist. Microsoft could replace Windows' innards, the NT kernel, with a Linux kernel.
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Many of the problems afflicting Windows do not reside in the operating system's upper levels. Instead, their roots are deep down in the NT kernel. What, then, if we could replace that rotten kernel with a fresh, healthy kernel? Maybe one that is being kept up to date by a worldwide group of passionate developers. Yes, my bias is showing, but that's Linux, and it's a solution that makes a lot of sense.

https://www.computerworld.c...ld-run-on-linux.html
Очередные влажные фантазии граждан, жаждущих папку bin в Windows, прямые слэшы, UTF-8 в ANSI API и скорейшей смерти MS-DOS (cmd.exe). Особенно улыбнули гнилое ядро NT и новенькое лимонно свеженькое ядро, разрабатывающееся группой международных пассонариев™.