Posted By: Charles | Mar 23rd, 2007 @ 3:21 PM | 122,847 Views | 36 Comments
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 now a Microsoft subsidiary as we purchased them in July, 2006. Yay!).

Mark is now a Technical Fellow in Windows and is a member of the Windows Core Architecture team (you met some of the other big brains on the CoreArch team last year).

Here we talk frankly about Mark's history, his coming to Microsoft, Windows security, what the CoreArch team does, what his role is, etc. Tune in.
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jhu
jhu
Great interview! Mark, you're my hero!

Great interview so far (still watching). Any reason it was cut at around 31:02?

Good interview. Vista internals , system calls and UAC explained well.
Awsome.

After watching the whole thing, I have to agree with the other comments that this is a fantastic video. Mark explains everything crystal clear. I really liked the explanation of the different user roles.

Charles,

Just my 2 cents worth.

One of the best interviews you have done.

Good work.

Xaero_Vincent
Xaero_Vincent
Sexy me
Good interview.

Mark described alot of complicated stuff in human language.
Charles wrote:
Mark's lessons on Vista's fundamental security model was much more interesting.


Indeed.

However, you made my head spin trying to think about how a system could by architected that would do away with the admin/standard user concept. It's a very easy thing to say, but practically turns computer science on it's head.

I totally understand why you guys didn't use the name of the idiot company that tried to rootkit everybody, but that was really when I got into reading Mark's blog. He's a good writer, and it was like reading some sort of techno-thriller mystery.
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