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Anyone know if there's work being done on a 7th edition of Windows Internals? I read Inside Windows 2000, which was totally awesome, but not super much changed
by tinco 11y ago
Anyone know if there's work being done on a 7th edition of Windows Internals? I read Inside Windows 2000, which was totally awesome, but not super much changed on the architectural level between 2000 and Windows 7 (which is covered in the 6th edition), at least not to my untrained eye. Windows 8 and 10 might have some radically new stuff, just judging from the range of devices they target, and their efforts on speeding it up on slower hardware (reversing the trend of the bloating Windows versions up to Vista).
Now I've not really used Windows much in the past 10 years. I switched to OSX and then to Ubuntu (when the desktop experience became more bearable, and the license issues with OSX more important to me). But reading about the NT kernel feels like reading about how a kernel should be designed. It really is that much cleaner in my opinion than anything I ever read on OSX or Linux. If they ever did open source it, I'd certainly join a subculture of before-it-got-hip Windows kernel lovers with XMonad as a window manager ;)
- dr_zoidberg 11y agoWindows Internals 7th Edition Book 1 is available already[0], and there will be 2 more books[1]. Russinovich and Solomon have stepped down a while ago, according to that forum thread, but the new book lists them as authors because Catlin and Hanrahan worked over the already existing stuff. [0] http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Book-User-Edition/dp/0735684189 http://www.amazon.com/Windows-Internals-Book-User-Edition/dp... [1] http://forum.sysinternals.com/when-is-the-7th-edition-book-for-win-8-coming-out_topic29288_post142573.html#142573 http://forum.sysinternals.com/when-is-the-7th-edition-book-f...
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