Description:
25-Word Description
The premier guide to the Windows kernel now covers Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 including 64-bit extensions. Get the architectural perspectives and insider insights needed to unlock the power of Windows.

75-Word Description
Delve inside the Windows kernel with noted internals experts Mark Russinovich and David Solomon in collaboration with the Microsoft Windows product development team. This classic guide fully updated for Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000 including 64-bit extensions describes the architecture and internals of the Windows operating system. You'll find hands-on experiments you can use to experience Windows internal behavior firsthand along with advanced troubleshooting information to help you keep your systems running smoothly and efficiently. Whether you're a developer or a system administrator you'll find critical architectural insights that you can quickly apply for better design debugging performance and support.

Positioning Statement:
Get the architectural perspectives and inside details you need to understand the Windows kernel!

Unique Selling Proposition:

Key Book Benefits:
• Provides the architectural perspectives and inside information needed to unlock the power of Windows
• All-in-one volume covers Windows Server 2003 Windows XP and Windows 2000
• Features advanced troubleshooting information for better debugging and performance analysis
Will Sell Like:
Inside Microsoft Windows NT® 2nd Edition

Target Audience:
Developers and IT Professionals

About the Technology:
In a talk at the recent Partner Publishing Summit (9/9/2002) John Montgomery the GPM of the Microsoft .NET Framework team gave the following figures: 1 million WinForms developers; 1.5 million Microsoft ASP.NET developers; 1.2 Microsoft Visual Basic® .NET developers; 600000 Microsoft Visual C++® developers; 600000 C# developers. Potentially all Windows developers and system administrators who need an understanding of operating system internals will want this book.

From the IT Subject Tracker Study (Feb. 2002; of 2502 respondents to a pop-up survey presented on the TechNet and Windows 2000 Technical Resources home pages) the highest scoring products and topics included:
•Windows 2000 Server including networking security networking and communications Web security user and resource Active Directory®)
•Networking including troubleshooting and security
•Security including best practices e-mail Web and virus protection

Windows 2000 Server information has the highest proportion of IT professionals (79%) rating it very important. This will grow to include Windows Server as it is adopted.

About the Author(s):
Mark E. Russinovich is chief software architect and cofounder of Winternals Software a company that specializes in advanced systems software for Windows. He authored the Sysinternals tools featured in this book. Mark has a Ph.D. in computer engineering from Carnegie Mellon University. He is also a senior contributing editor for Windows IT Pro Magazine.

David A. Solomon is the president of David Solomon Expert Seminars (www.solsem.com) and teaches classes on Windows internals to corporations worldwide including Microsoft. He is also a regular speaker at Microsoft technical conferences. David was previously a lead developer on the VMS operating system at Digital Equipment Corporation.