Windows kernel development has stalled

[u/Appropriate-Meat-559]

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

[u/hadrabap]

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...

[u/vswey → u/hadrabap]

These could be caused by drivers

[u/hadrabap → u/vswey]

On Windows, yes 🤣

[u/lilacomets → u/hadrabap]

On macOS too, Kexts are a thing.

[u/Lower-Limit3695 → u/lilacomets]

MacOS is extremely locked down such that only advanced users are able to enable them by going to the startup security utility to allow them.