Windows 7 Inside Out

Acknowledgments

If we tried to list all the people who have helped us in one way or another on this project, we’d have to add another 50 pages. So we apologize in advance to those we don’t thank by name.

We’d like to acknowledge the tremendous assistance offered by Steve Ball, Mark Russinovich, Dan Plastina, Gabe Aul, Charlie Owen, Chris Flores, and Jerry Koh of Microsoft. They are among literally dozens of developers, product managers, and technical professionals at Microsoft who enthusiastically shared their time and their deep knowledge of Windows 7 with us. Our thanks also to their bosses, Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky, for their support in making those contacts possible. We also benefitted greatly from a nonstop public dialogue with our fellow ...