I legitimately don&#x27;t see why you would.<p>This isn&#x27;t one of these &quot;Windows sucks!&quot; posts. Windows is a very good endpoint for many services (DNS, DHCP, AD, IIS&#x2F;ASP.net, VPNs, etc) and of course an extremely popular client.<p>But that being as it may, packet storms should never be allowed to hit endpoints, that the entire purpose of packet filtering. So you&#x27;ll want to be taking them out on front-line appliances, and appliances based on the Windows NT kernel simply don&#x27;t exist.<p>So this is why CloudFlare cares about this, they&#x27;re utilising Linux on an appliance in front of their endpoints to try and drop as many &quot;bad&quot; packets as they can detect. Both Linux and various BSD variants are used commonly on networking equipment, so trying to optimise them seems to make a lot of sense.<p>Windows on the other hand? If you&#x27;re trying to do packet filtering on the endpoint itself then you&#x27;re fighting a losing battle. For example, they&#x27;re low-level hooking network traffic, and while that works wonderfully for filtering, it is a terrible idea if the machine is used for other things as it can disrupt normal legitimate machine traffic.