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Re:Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows drive... by tonyedgecombe on Sunday September 24, 2023 @03:51AM (#37630990)
Microsoft did have an experimental OS[1] written in a variant of C# so it doesn't seem completely unrealistic.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Midori_(operating_system)

My guess is the internal politics would be a bigger problem than any technical issues.

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Re:Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows drive... by anaisbetts on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:19AM (#37631130)
It's not unrealistic but Midori made a lot of changes to C# to make it possible, it was almost a different language by the end of the project
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Re:Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows drive... by tester756 on Sunday September 24, 2023 @04:30AM (#37631175)
Learnings from Midori were partially incorporated into C#
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Re:Mark Russinovich: “Working towards enabling Windows drive... by pjmlp on Sunday September 24, 2023 @07:50AM (#37632253)
Starting in C# 7, and still being done in newer versions.
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