IIRC the windows team has been in the process of cleaning up the NT Kernel for awhile (since vista at least) with the clear goal of getting NT back to "Dave Cut

IIRC the windows team has been in the process of cleaning up the NT Kernel for awhile (since vista at least) with the clear goal of getting NT back to "Dave Cutler's NT". The visible bits of this are the Server Micro project that's used for containers and Server core.