Why Windows NT Kernel is Fundamentally Broken
Why Windows NT Kernel is Fundamentally Broken Let’s talk about the elephant in the room: the Windows NT kernel is fundamentally broken. Not just “different”—broken. The Architecture Nightmare Monolithic Design with Microkernel Pretensions The NT kernel tries to be both monolithic and microkernel. It fails at both: Performance: Too many layers of abstraction Reliability: Single points of failure everywhere Security: Privilege escalation vulnerabilities built-in Maintainability: Spaghetti code that nobody understands Registry: The Worst Design Decision Ever 1 2 // This is how Windows stores configuration HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Compare to Linux: ...