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
- Core Parking
- 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