[tremon]

Having a better officially supported API to talk to the NT kernel can only be a good thing, from my point of view.

That's particular interesting now that SQL Server has been ported to Linux. Would be funny if they're going to use the Linux subsystem on Windows too.

Although I suspect SQL Server already talks to the kernel directly.

[amaks]

No, they do have sophisticated user mode library but use only public kernel APIs. That user model library also helped them relatively painlessly migrate SQL Server to Linux.