Architecture

Windows on ARM is a new member of the Windows family that builds on the foundation of Windows. These PCs will be built by PC manufacturers and based on unique and innovative hardware platforms provided by nVidia, Qualcomm, and Texas Instruments. …

How has Windows evolved, as a general purpose operating system and at the lowest levels, in Windows 7? Who better to talk to than Technical Fellow and Windows Kernel guru Mark Russinovich? Here, Mark enlightens us on the new kernel constructs in Windows 7 (and, yeah, we do wander up into user…

Sidebar lives!But it's even better, here Sean Alexander, David Streams, and special guest Sanaz Ahari of the Start.com team, demonstrate the new sidebar and gadgets that come in Windows Vista. Plus, we cover the three different kinds of gadgets and show how to build your own.You can learn…

What is MVVM and why do people keep talking about it?  Karl Shifflett explains why its buzz worthy and why you should consider it as a design pattern for your application development.  Karl discusses improved unit testability (including UI testing), full separation and…

If you write code on Windows or like to know what goes on under the hood in Windows, then you've no doubt heard of Mark Russinovich. He's an OS kernel expert and a co-founder of Winternals; a company that produced must-have operating system and development utilities for Windows (Winternals is…

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…

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…

Dharma Shukla, Architect for the Live Framework, knows how to make developers happy.  After delivering the programming model for the Workflow Foundation, he joined the Live Services team to develop a unified, simple and open way for developers to program against the full set of Live…

Ever wonder how the experts organize their XAML-based projects? With the help of Jaime Rodriguez, the WPF guy on my team, we've put together a 3 part video series on XAML Guidelines. The videos along with a whitepaper available at the end of this week answer questions like "How do you…

You've learned about many of the new features of the latest version of the Windows kernel in the Mark Russinovich Inside Windows 7 conversation here on Channel 9. One of Mark’s favorite kernel innovations is the way the Windows 7 kernel manages scheduling of threads and the underlying…