Foreword

It’s both a pleasure and an honor for me to write the foreword for this latest edition of Windows Internals. Many significant changes have occurred in Windows since the last edition of the book, and David, Mark, and Alex have done an excellent job of updating the book to address them. Whether you are new to Windows internals or an old hand at kernel development, you will find lots of detailed analysis and examples to help improve your understanding of the core mechanisms of Windows as well as the general principles of operating system design.

Today, Windows enjoys unprecedented breadth and depth in the computing world. Variants of the original Windows NT design run on everything from Xbox game consoles to desktop and laptop computers to ...

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