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This is explained here: https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/stable_api_nonsense...

Linux maintains compatibility by fixing the driver themselves when they break it. Microsoft cannot (actually, can, and does) break their interfaces since they don't control the drivers.

This allows Linux to keep improving without breaking things in production; while Microsoft has to either maintain huge backward compatibility abstractions for changes, go YOLO and break stuff (often unknowingly) or abstain from improving their OS.