Re: Win 10, a complete re-write from scratch!
@Kiwi: "I've spent some time googling and cannot find a reference to it"
'On Aug. 27, 2004 .. Mr. Allchin had announced .. that they would "reset" Longhorn using a clean base of code that had been developed for a version of Windows on corporate server computers.'
The problem with Windows is that it has been deliberatly written in spaghetti style to prevent others easily cloning it. In the process Microsoft created the Frankenstein of Operating Systems.