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I have worked on a Windows-compatible kernel. Not at Microsoft, but within the ReactOS Project. And I can affirm that even after 15 years of low-level development, nowadays mostly within various Rust projects, it doesn't get boring. Can't imagine going back to high-level while there is still so much work to do on the underlying foundations..

Congrats on your kernel development offer from Microsoft! I imagine these to be very scarce these days, considering that today's Microsoft seems to be more into services and less about low-level software development.

If you like to chat more about this, just drop me a line. Always interested to hear from low-level devs and aspiring ones. My website/e-mail is in my HN profile.