Mark Russinovich and David Solomon: Windows Internals 5 Released

Posted By: Charles | Jun 19th @ 9:01 AM | 62,937 Views | 12 Comments
Windows kernel expert and kernel "professor" David Solomon and Windows Kernel Technical Fellow Mark Russinovich have written another great book covering, in great detail, the internal composition of Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. A third author,Alex Ionescu, joined the fray this time around. Together, they've just released Windows Internals Fifth Edition. My order has been submitted! If you want to really understand the mechanics of Windows' latest generation general purpose kernel, then go get this book.

David was in Redmond recently conducting deep training on the Windows 7 kernel, which contains 95% of the same ingredients as the Windows Vista kernel. So, of course we had to get the dynamic duo together to talk about their book, the Windows kernel, their history (they've been working together for a long time) and their future.

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#Jun 19th @ 11:16 AM
intelman
intelman

Kinda cool, but Sysinternals is much more interesting.

#Jun 19th @ 11:43 AM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

Sysinternals is a suite of tools for kernel level inspection that relies on the detailed information contained within texts like Windows Internals. They are certainly coupled in this regard.

C

#Jun 19th @ 12:03 PM
someone
someone

Wish this is available in the Microsoft Press free book of the month offers.

#Jun 19th @ 2:58 PM
KevinB
KevinB

Interesting post, very good watch. Pity we didn't get to see Alex Ionescou on camera as well. I recommend everyone take some time and read about ReactOS or maybe download a build of it. Alex has made some pretty massive contributions to that project which may explain why David has hired this early-20's dev to lecture MS people on the internals of Windows.

#Jun 19th @ 3:04 PM
intelman
intelman

Oh yes, for sure. But so much information is freely available already I am not sure how useful Windows Internals 5 will be. Maybe if I didn't have a textbook budget I'd feel differently, but I doubt it.

Authors are smart, have great things to say, I certainly do not mean to be critical of them.

#Jun 19th @ 3:49 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

I wasn't suggesting you were being critical! Indeed, you are right that the Internet is rife with information that is specific to the Windows kernel, but I don't think it can possibly manifest itself in the same way as a 1200 page book.

Who knows, maybe we can get some Niners signed copies as a random act of kindness Wink

C

#Jun 19th @ 5:51 PM
emalamisura
emalamisura

Charles,

I love to watch Mark interviews, he is like a super genius.  I would love to hear his opinions on other non-Microsoft technologies and to get his viewpoints.  I mean I know you guys are Microsoft, but most of us are serious technology nut jobs.  For me I am a hardcore Windows and .NET guy but I also own a slew of Macs, an iPhone a couple Touches and I do Cocoa and Objective-C development.  I have a couple of Ubuntu machines also, so I think it would be super fascinating to get a couple of these super geniuses together and just do a coffee house type of discussion about technology in general.  Maybe there history, some informal discussions, the best part of this interview for me was when Mark went into his history and explained his experiences with the Unix mach kernel, thats really kewl stuff!  It just shows how much more diverse the Windows kernel is, more than what people think. 

#Jun 19th @ 5:56 PM
Charles
Charles
Welcome Change

I agree. It's really cool that Mark went from being an outsider with expert level insider technical understanding (because of his passion for operating systems, education, experience and native brain power) to the most senior engineer/architect on the Windows kernel team. Fate rocks. Smiley

C

PS: As to your request, I'll see what I can do. It's a good idea! Perhaps an E2E2E2E in the making.

#Jun 19th @ 6:51 PM
emalamisura
emalamisura

Sweet, I am excited about this possible interview!!

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