At least from what I can gather from Pascal's Showstopper (the book on the development of Windows NT), that was against Dave Cutler's wishes, and indeed the mai

At least from what I can gather from Pascal's Showstopper (the book on the development of Windows NT), that was against Dave Cutler's wishes, and indeed the main kernel was originally just C; that books documents some of the hassles they have as a consequence of using C++. (And indeed, it strikes me as bizarre that one would use C++ for an OS kernel.)