At the kernel level, yes. But they are talking about CRT, which parses the command line and makes argv from user space, if your linker is set up to have a main(

At the kernel level, yes. But they are talking about CRT, which parses the command line and makes argv from user space, if your linker is set up to have a main() and not WinMain. That is why they put MSVC in parens.