PDC09 – Pre-Conference - Windows 7 BootCamp Part 1/6 - Introduction

Introduction to the Windows 7 BootCamp

Key Windows Kernel Changes

• Performance
  • Footprint reduction
  • Memory optimizations
  • Working set management improvements
  • Perftrack
• Power efficiency
  • Core Parking
    • Trying to make cores going to sleep if they are not needed
  • Unified Background Process Manager
  • Timer Coalescing
  • Tick Skipping
• Reliability
  • Fault Tolerant Heap
  • Process Reflection
  • Native VHD
    • Ability to mount and manage VHDs
    • Boot-from-VHD
  • Scalability
    • Simultaneous Multithreading Improvements
    • User Model Scheduling
    • Support for > 64 logical processors
    • Lock removal, including PFM, dispatcher locks
• Security
  • New UAC operating models
  • Managed Service accounts
    • Allows a service to run isolated form other services
  • Bitlocker-to-go
    • Extends the  previous versions in order to encrypt USB disks and we can use it in any other OS since it launches the Bitlocker-To-Go plugin in order to get access to the elements of the USB disks
  • Windows Biometric Framework
  • App Locker
  • Auditing improvements
    • New Object global auditing in order to get information about why the user has or doesn’t have access to same information