Kernel of Truth

Mark Russinovich has posted Part 2 of the Inside the Windows Vista Kernel series at TechNet Magazine.  Among the topics covered this time around:

• Vista's dynamic kernel space addressing scheme
• Memory prioritization
• SuperFetch (a topic many people don't understand completely, I think)
• ReadyBoost (ditto)
• ReadyBoot (boot-time optimization)
• ReadyDrive (hybrid hard drive optimization)
• The infamous Boot Configuration Database or BCD, the binary replacement for BOOT.INI that has been driving people nuts for a long time.  Interesting fact: it's actually stored as a Registry hive on disk.
• And much more.

In my post about Part 1 in the series, I commented that these articles are the perfect antidote to people who insist Vista is just XP in a new UI.  And, once again, everything I see convinces me that nothing could be further from the truth.