
As a result Microsoft never significantly tampered with the Windows kernel through Windows 7 (6.1) and Windows 8 (6.2/6.3) – making small feature additions where it made sense to – and even the kernel version number of Windows 10 (10.0) is largely arbitrary, with its roots clearly in 6.x. After the massive reworking for Windows Vista (6.0), Windows finally reached a point where the kernel and other low-level components of the OS supported the necessary features and sported the required stability to drive Windows for generations to come. DirectX 12 & WDDM 2.0: Reworking the Windows Graphics StackĪt a low-level technical perspective, it’s perhaps a bit of a generalization though none the less true that Windows at the kernel is relatively stable and feature complete these days.
