Acknowledgments

We dedicate this edition to Jim Allchin, our executive sponsor and champion before he retired from Microsoft. Jim supported our book work on this and earlier editions and was instrumental in bringing Mark Russinovich to Microsoft. In addition to shepherding Windows Vista out the door, Jim also oversaw the delivery of Windows 2000, Windows XP, and Windows Server 2003.

Each edition of this book has to acknowledge Dave Cutler, Senior Technical Fellow and the original architect of Windows NT. Dave originally approved David Solomon’s source code access and has been supportive of his work to explain the internals of Windows through his training business as well as during the writing of the editions of this book.

We also thank three developers ...

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