Apple gets away with a lot of things MS would never get away with, so I am not sure that saying "apple did it" is a good argument. It still may be a good idea to move away from kernel modules, I would tend to agree with that in general. But there is a whole class of problems that come from allowing third parties to push updates to your critical IT systems- kernel or not.
You’re right that Apple can get away with things Windows can’t. But in the case of kernel extensions, I think Apple has shown a valid path Microsoft should take.
