

Sysinternals has long been renowned as one of the best sources for Windows tools and utilities.

Hopefully, this makes the story’s title as clear as it gets! It takes no leap of faith to understand that Microsoft really bought Russinovich when they bought that company, and his name and work is splattered all over the Microsoft Web site. The big-gun author who joined this book for the third and all subsequent editions is named Mark Russinovich, who is also one of the world’s leading experts on Windows internals, and who co-founded a company called Sysinternals in 1996 that was acquired by Microsoft in 2006. Just for the record, the book was entitled Inside Microsoft Windows NT for its first two editions, then became Inside Microsoft Windows 2000, 3e, and is now called Microsoft Windows Internals, 4e, with a 5e underway for November 2008 delivery (4e covers Server 2003 and XP, while 5e adds Server 2008 and Vista). Individually, and in the aggregate, these tomes offer the best inside look at Windows at work around. Inside Windows and Windows Internals make up the chief portions of some titles that represent 4 editions of the same book. Let me explain the apparently redundant gobbledygook that makes up the title for this story. You can still see it at work under the Microsoft umbrella by typing into your favorite browser.
