Since the first public news of Windows 7’s development back on October 2007, we’ve heard about a component of the operating system called MinWin — a tantalizingly titled element that sounds like some kind of portable Windows kernel. Now Windows 7 is actually residing on paying consumers’ desktops, and inside of it — and inside of Windows Server 2008 R2 — is the MinWin kernel architecture…and yet few have been made clear as to what it actually is.
Link – http://www.betanews.com/article/Mark-Russinovich-on-MinWin-the-new-core-of-Windows/1259792850
