Windows Internals, Seventh Edition is intended for advanced computer professionals (developers,
security researchers, and system administrators) who want to understand how the core components of the
Microsoft Windows 10 and Windows Server 2016 operating systems work internally. With this
knowledge, developers can better comprehend the rationale behind design choices when building
applications specific to the Windows platform. Such knowledge can also help developers debug complex
problems. System administrators can benefit from this information as well, because understanding how
the operating system works “under the hood” facilitates an understanding of the performance behavior of
the system and makes troubleshooting system problems much easier when things go wrong. Security
researchers can figure out how software applications and the operating system can misbehave and be
misused, causing undesirable behavior, while also understanding the mitigations and security features
modern Windows offers against such scenarios. After reading this book, you should have a better
understanding of how Windows works and why it behaves as it does.
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