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
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
