3 ms·

That makes backwards compatibility very challenging so is not really an option.

• Iolaum 5y ago
  WINE has demonstrated that this problem is solvable. They may not have the resources to make everything work seamlessly but that's not a problem for Microsoft.
  • tored 5y ago
    The thing is that backwards compatibility is already developed, it called Windows and already paid for. That is the problem with all these ideas of rebuilding, it cost lots of money for ending up in at same place you already are.
  • swiley 5y ago
    I would be shocked if Microsoft abandoned the NT kernel but I wouldn't be too surprised if they open sourced a lot of the win32 runtime and turned it into some community maintained thing. They've already done this with .net.