While I do appreciate the context, simply putting Mark Russinovich in a box that says he is an Azure guy, ignores history. He is probably one of, if not the mos

While I do appreciate the context, simply putting Mark Russinovich in a box that says he is an Azure guy, ignores history. He is probably one of, if not the most authoritative Windows person on the planet. He chose to do Azure fabric stuff because at his level, you get your pick of interesting projects. Taking the Windows code base and moving to to cloud scale was probably a pretty unique challenge. So yes, while open sourcing windows would be a massive undertaking involving nearly every level of management and buy in at Microsoft - Mark R would carry a big stick in such a discussion.