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slekkertoday at 5:52 PM3 repliesview on HN

To add they want to rewrite Windows in Rust with AI, which I can only assume they hope will keep the software quality up but I doubt it


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p_ingtoday at 6:59 PM

It's unfortunate that falsehoods spread so quickly.

https://www.windowslatest.com/2025/12/24/microsoft-denies-re...

> “It appears my post generated far more attention than I intended… with a lot of speculative reading between the lines.. Just to clarify… Windows is NOT being rewritten in Rust with AI.

> My team’s project is a research project. [...]

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gregorstoday at 9:10 PM

A perfectly crafted turd ....is still a turd.

leptonstoday at 8:58 PM

They should go back to Windows 95 (or NT), convert that to Rust, and then move forward from there. Most of Windows releases since '95 have been garbage.