Microsoft Kernel Engineers Talk About Windows 7's Kernel
Microsoft's Professional Developers Conference is currently under way, and as usual, the technical fellows at Microsoft gave speeches about the deep architecture of Windows - in this case, Windows 7 of course. As it turns out, quite some seriously impressive changes have been made to the very core of Windows - all without breaking a single application. Thanks to BetaNews for summarising this technical talk so well.
The focus seemed to have been on improving performance - not a strange goal after the arrival of Windows Vista, which simply didn't perform very well, especially in its early days. Mark Russinovich, Windows NT kernel guru, didn't even try to defend Windows Vista in this regard during his talk.
