Fact Check: Is Microsoft Really Planning to Rewrite Windows 11 in Rust Using AI?
Microsoft engineer Galen Hunt clarified that Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust using AI, despite earlier speculation sparked by his post about migrating large codebases from C++ to Rust. Hunt said his comments referred to a multi-year research effort to improve language-migration tooling, and hiring engineers to explore safer, scalable translation techniques, not to redefine Windows’ core development strategy.
