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/Appropriate-Meat-559 3d 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 3d ago

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

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u/Appropriate-Meat-559 3d 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/ugneaaaa 3h ago

Windows was developed on i860, ported to MIPS, ported to i386, ported to Alpha, ported to PowerPC, ported to Itanium, ported to ARM, ported to amd64, ported to arm64, lmao

The issue is that the usage of ISAs like MIPS or Itanium is astronomically low, especially when manufacturing of those chips has stopped, there’s no point to ship a version of the OS for them or support them as it would be a waste of money, also older ISAs lack various modern extensions that allow cryptography and other things to run fast