Going Deep
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Charles Torre travels around Microsoft to meet the company’s leading Architects and Engineers to discuss the inner workings of our core technologies. Going Deep is primarily concerned with how things work, why they are designed the way they are, and how they will evolve over time. Going Deep also includes lectures by domain experts and conversational pieces amongst computer scientists, architects and engineers (a la E2E).
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VirtualizationFeb 14, 2006 at 2:07 PM
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Ever wonder how virtualization works? Where is it used? What role could virtualization play in the future of Windows, for example? How will it evolve over time?We recently met with some of the Microsoft Virtualization people to find some answers to these questions and learn a whole lot about… -
Eugene Lin and Jason Cobb - Windows Plug and PlayJan 18, 2006 at 11:56 AM 36
Ever wonder what's really going on when you attach a peripheral device to your computer (running Windows XP or Vista)? Well, we wanted to find out the low level truths about Plug and Play in Windows. Who else better to talk to than Eugene Lin and Jason Cobb, the Plug and Play Guys ( Eugene is a… -
Rob Short (and kernel team) - Going deep inside Windows Vista's kernel architectureDec 23, 2005 at 2:47 PM 45
Rob Short is the corporate vice president in charge of the team that architects the foundation of Windows Vista. This is a fascinating conversation with the kernel architecture team. It's our Christmas present to all of the Niners out there who've stuck with us day after day.This is a… -
Vista Audio Stack and APIDec 13, 2005 at 6:44 PM 51
Charles recently caught up with seasoned Niner, Larry Osterman, an SDE and 20 year Microsoft veteran, and Elliot H Omiya, a Software Architect and audio guru, to dig into the innerworkings of Vista's updated Audio Stack and new user mode API. Much of the guts of Windows audio have… -
Concurrency and Coordination RuntimeDec 07, 2005 at 11:33 AM 77
The Concurrency and Coordination Runtime (CCR) is a lightweight port-based concurrency library for C# 2.0 developed by George Chrysanthakopoulos in the Advanced Strategies group at Microsoft. Here, we have a deep discussion about CCR with George, a Software Architect, and Satnam Singh, Architect.… -
Surendra Verma: Vista Transactional File SystemDec 02, 2005 at 11:51 AM 20
Surendra Verma, Development Manager on the Vista Kernel team, digs into Vista's new Transactional File System whith Charles Torre. TxF, as it is referred to internally, is a new kernel construct that is part of an updated Vista NTFS. Surendra provides a high level overview of TxF in this… -
Singularity RevisitedDec 01, 2005 at 4:10 PM 48
Charles Torre again sits down with some of the people behind MSR's Singularity research OS. This time, we drill down into the architecture of Singularity and discuss design decisions, usage of safe code, Channels, SIPs, etc. We even manage to get Galen Hunt, the OS Guy, up to the white… -
Windows, NT Object ManagerJun 03, 2005 at 3:24 PM 7
Almost everything you do on your PC requires the assistance of NT's Object Manager. The Object Manager is a shared resource; a subsystem upon which all other executive kernel subsystems rely on to get their jobs done. That said, among NT's kernel components, the OM receives the least amount of… -
Singularity: A research OS written in C#May 13, 2005 at 12:19 PM 108
MS Researchers Jim Larus and Galen Hunt lead an intriguing project where they've built an OS using managed code. The project is known as Singularity. In their own words: Singularity is a research project focused on the construction of dependable systems through innovation in the areas of… -
Chris Anderson - Talking shop about AvalonMay 11, 2005 at 11:48 AM 15
Recently, Charles cornered Chris Anderson, an Avalon Architect and champion blogger/demo king, in a room, threw him a dry erase marker and asked him to briefly describe the architecture of Avalon. You know, the building blocks of this super cool technology. Of course, Chris always jumps…
