Archive for July, 2009
How is Windows 7 Built ?
As Windows 7 nears1 RTM, Technet interviews Windows 7 Build Engineer Istvan Cseri about Microsoft’s massive build infrastructure for building Windows 7. For the daily build of Windows 7, it takes about 30 machines (about 10 machines each for x86, amd64, ia64) 12 hours to produce 13TB (3300 ISOs) of build bits for different SKUs [...]
Solomon+Russinovich-Ionescu Interview
Channel 9 interviewed David Solomon and Mark Russinovich, co-authors (along with Alex Ionescu) of Windows Internals 5th Edition . Solomon describes how both of them started to collaborate on an earlier edition of the book way back when. Here it is.
what is fileinfo.sys ?
I like knowing what does what on the system at a binary level. Windows is getting bigger and bigger with every release, so it is becoming increasingly difficult to keep track of all the things that Microsoft is building into Windows. I have learnt a lot over the years by asking a simple question like [...]
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