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Why wasting time on this? Why not just spend the dev time on showing more ads?

• wongarsu 4y ago
  The teams working on the kernel and the team working on userspace have always had different priorities and quality of work, to the point that it's not obvious that they are made by the same company. I find lots of things I don't like about Windows userspace (with a few nuggets of greatness in between), but the Windows Kernel is pretty great.
• jabroni_salad 4y ago
  Excuse me, those are not ads, they are special messages from our featured partners.
• zaphar 4y ago
  Your question reads as slightly tongue in cheek. But you can learn something by asking and answering it in this case. When should you think about rewriting something? 1. When it's a common recurring source of bugs/problems/pain. 2. When it's no longer fit for purpose. Often either because the purpose has changed in some way or because the purpose was misunderstood when it was created. In this case at least some of the rewrites were prompted by subsystems being a common source of memory safety bugs continually popping up. Rewriting with technologies and techniques that eliminate some classes of memory safety bugs immediately and in the future is a pretty large payoff for a kernel.
• michaelcampbell 3y ago
  They're busy writing the code to put the ads in the start menu and all the system settings screens.
• 0dayz 3y ago
  Maybe they are writing an ad kernel module in rust. To you know catch those pesky ad cheaters.