I've seen kernel code from pre and post Windows 8. The pre Windows 8 stuff is generally nice, from what little I saw the post windows 8 stuff looked like featur

I've seen kernel code from pre and post Windows 8. The pre Windows 8 stuff is generally nice, from what little I saw the post windows 8 stuff looked like features designed by a PM that engineers were forced to implement. Things were obviously not as well thought out, Windows 8 was, IMHO, a panicked reaction to the rise of tablet sales at the time.