The Windows approach to threads is essentially equivalent, both kernels mainly deal with threads that only incidentally belong to processes. While in Linux proc

The Windows approach to threads is essentially equivalent, both kernels mainly deal with threads that only incidentally belong to processes. While in Linux process is essentially an special case of thread, Windows kernel actually has processes as distinct entities, but that is mostly an implementation detail, to some extent, NT kernel is even more thread-oriented, as there is more state associated with thread (and surprisingly, some things that might look like in-kernel process state from Unix standpoint are actually illusion provided by Windows userspace components).