Windows OS Architecture Book [closed]

Question

I have a background in programming and have done a little .NET but I feel that I would benefit from improving my understanding of the Windows Architecture. Can anyone recomend a good book that discusses the Windows Operating System from a technical perspactive, particulary it's architecture/design and how it works. Im not looking for a huge technical manual, just looking to get a general appreciation of how Windows works.

Thanks.

Answer 1

Windows Internals Book -- To delve inside Windows architecture and internals:

Answer 2

• Windows Architecture
• Architecture of Windows NT
• Windows 2000 Architecture
• Windows Programming/Windows System Architecture

Answer 3

Great question Dave. I am mostly a web developer, but the book that really gave me a great understanding of .Net and I think is a must read (maybe a "prequel" for you) is Jeffrey Richter's CLR via C#. It made me a better developer just from the fundamental way your construct your classes and how that impacts .Net, memory managment, multi-threading, etc.

Great fundamentals will lead you to books that some of these other folks have recommended.

I always recommend this book to anybody that is starting out and if you code along with it you will start to understand .Net a great deal. I will ask around Windows Architecture front...

Good luck!