Windows 7 has introduced many new and improved features not only on the user experience side but also at the kernel level. If you are curious of what changes have been made at the Windows kernel level, you can find great insights from Mark Russinovich’s PDC09 session on “Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changesâ€.
Link – http://blogs.msdn.com/zxue/archive/2009/12/23/windows-7-and-minwin.aspx
