This actually premiered on Channel 9 right before Christmas. It is an
interview with Rob Short, a Microsoft VP in charge of the team working
on Vista's kernel architecture. With him are Darryl Havens, Richard
Ward, and Rich Neves, all architects who work under him. The interview
is quite candid about issues that have been experienced in the Windows
kernel to date and how they are going about trying to fix the issues by
laying out a roadmap of where they want to be and attacking the
problems in small chunks. Listening to the compartmentalizing of the
operating system and segmenting state better makes one appreciate the
work that goes into making a robust operating system work. It's just
short of 50 minutes long but well worth the time.
