Ian Reay

John Sheehan has given a pretty fascinating discussion of how App-V is implemented internally.

I highly recommend this video to anyone interested in advanced application architecture.

Mark Russonovich

• http://www.microsoft.com/emea/spotlight/sessionh.aspx?videoid=993
  • Discusses the various security boundaries and outlines which ones are hard and which are soft.

Rafal Lukawiecki

• Introduction to Data Mining (Video Presentation)
  • This is the first of 5 presentations given by Rafal on the topic of Data Mining. A great crash course in a rapidly developing technology sector.

Microsoft Advanced Windows Debugging and Troubleshooting Blog

• Basics of NT Debugging
  • Discusses debuggers such as ntsd.exe, cdb.exe, and windbg.exe. A great post for anyone getting started in native windows development.

Jonathan Edwards

•  Too Many Cores, Not Enough Brains
  • A very interesting take on the whole Concurrent Programming movement in software development. Argues that “Giving a multicore CPU to a programmer is like giving a drink to an alcoholic” which do agree with to a point ;). People developing concurrent applications should at least be aware of this critique.

Mark Roberts

• Advanced Debugging Techniques With Visual Studio
  • A solid crash course on native debugging. Discusses how symbol and source servers can aid debugging. Tips and tricks for x86, x64, optimized debugging techniques.

Two of the lead windows 7 engineers (Jon DeVaan and Steven Sinofsky) have started up a blog to discuss the next windows OS. Should contain some interesting info in the near future.

 http://blogs.msdn.com/e7/default.aspx

Here is a link to a talk given by Eric Traut, the head of the windows kernel division.

http://www.acm.uiuc.edu/conference/2007/video/UIUC-ACM-RP07-Traut.wmv

He discusses where windows is, how virtualization fits in, and where he see’s windows moving in the future. He also demo’s minwin, Microsofts new minimal kernel. Note, don’t believe minwin will ship anytime soon. He stresses that minwin is not going to be in production anytime in the future. In other words, it’s pretty much a guarantee that minwin won’t be the basis of Windows 7.