Kernel

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…

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…

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…

Nar, an architect on Windows Device Experience team, takes us deep inside the I/O manager inside Windows' kernel.

Charles Torre continues his series of "going deep in Windows" with an interview of Nar Ganapathy, an architect on the I/O Manager in Windows (part of the Windows Kernel).

Here's the second part of Molly's interview, where she dives down deeper into Windows' cache manager.

This is the second in the "Going Deep: Windows" series and here we are still down in the kernel and we're talking to Molly Brown, developer of the cache manager.The second part of Molly's interview will be up tomorrow.The cache manager is a kernel subsystem that works with file systems to…

Here's the final part of the interview we did with Windows kernel architect Dave Probert. In this part Dave discusses the differences between the NT architecture and other operating systems.Dave talks about the history of operating systems at Microsoft (not to mention Posix, OS/2, Unix, and other…

Here's part III of Dave Probert's discussion of the Windows Kernel.

In this second part of the video with Windows' kernel architect Dave Probert, we get a little tour of multi-threading and how Windows works at a deep level.