>To be honest, that's a bit troll-ish, given that >WP8 uses the same kernel and user interface as >Windows 8 and given the functionality of the >pre-installed applications.

That doesn't matter. Microsoft had a quite good kernel with NT 4 already and Win7 has a fantastic stable kernel with many features. Win 8 has an even better kernel and yet the new metro store and start screen and all the other removed features and freedom make it a not a better OS to say the least.