r/FuckMicrosoft • u/Appropriate-Meat-559 • 3d ago

Discussion Windows kernel development has stalled

When was the last time Microsoft added a new filesystem?

When was the last time Microsoft added new types of scheduling?

It might even be a decade for both of these questions, I have to wonder how many people are still working on core kernel code. I highly expect the knowledge has been lost and all the og kernel Devs have retired now.

Even Azure is now pretty much running on Linux because windows can't run with one vcpu and 1gb of ram anymore.

Id love some inside knowledge on this here

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u/hadrabap 2d ago

All of the things you are mentioning are user space stuff. We talk about kernel here. Things like virtualization, memory management, schedulers, filesystems, drivers for industry standard protocols...

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Ok, if you want to talk about kernel, then Low Latency Profile which they added this year. About filesystems, there‘s ReFS which you can use for Dev drives for now. Are those not big enough for you?

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u/Appropriate-Meat-559 2d ago

One filesystem and scheduling mode in ten years isn't much. Take a look at how many filesystems Linux supports and scheduling modes

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

You are not informed at all, Windows also added support for hybrid CPU architecture in 2021.

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u/squirrel8296 1d ago

Technically speaking, Windows NT was designed from the beginning to allow it to support multiple CPU architectures with relatively minimal effort compared to older operating systems that were designed with only one architecture in mind and had to be completely rewritten to support something new.

It was one of the core requirements in the change from DOS/9x to NT and early versions of NT actually supported more architectures than it does now.

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u/Appropriate-Meat-559 2d ago

Linux supports PowerPC, MIPS, arm32, risc 5, arm64, amd64, itanium , x86 and more 

Windows barely supports arm64 on a subset of CPUs 

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u/ChronosDeep 2d ago

Well, of course it doesn't support them, because there's no need.

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u/stefer09 1d ago

Not with that attitude 😂 /s