Attendees at Microsoft's Windows Hardware Engineering Conference here got an in-depth and deeply technical keynote outlining the changes to the Windows kernel and other key areas, and how partners can take advantage of these.
In his presentation on May 16, Mark Russinovich, a technical fellow in Microsoft's platform and services division and the third keynoter of the day, talked about how uniprocessor kernel variants were now gone from Windows Server 2008, which reduces the need for downtime by supporting hardware configuration changes without the need to reboot the system.
The new server product, which is the basis for Microsoft's new virtualization offering, also introduced a new common infrastructure called WHEA (Windows Hardware Error Architecture).