This strategy worked as it gave Microsoft the opportunity to create a highly differentiated system level of performance wills also ensuring backward compatibility to previous generation applications and their respective API calls (Bradley, 2009). Microsoft also took the added step of ensuring the MinWin kernel could also manage a high level of transaction activity while also staying synchronized to the many processes, threads, memory management, control of I/O devices and also the detecting and responding to threats as well. The MinWin kernel was designed to support a series of components which would specifically allow for these Transaction Coordinator, Logging Service, Kernel Transaction Manager and Lightweight Transactions Web Services set, Microsoft is deliberately designing the ancillary kernel modules to make Windows 7 more of a development platform for Web Services than any previous generation of any Windows 32-bit or 64-based operating system. This has the net effect of creating a scalable platform for Microsoft .NET, Active Service Pages, XML and 3rd party system integration at the API level, further extending the functionality of the Windows 7 operating system. It also gave the usability engineers at Microsoft greater flexibility and freedom in how they design the overall look and feel of the operating system itself, significantly increasing its performance in the process (Spring, 2008). The MinWin kernel is also specifically designed to be backward compatible with the Kerberos security platform and API calls from previous Microsoft operating systems as well (Wildstrom, 2009). This approach to backward compatibility from a secur8ity standpoint also leads to a greater level of API support in .NET and Active Service Pages (ASP) applications based on the Windows 7 APIs and data structures (Spring, 2008). The development of this approach to counteracting malware provides Internet browsers with a much higher degree of control and analytical insight into troubleshooting security events. Symantec and other enterprise software companies rely on these APIs in Windows 7 to more clearly delineate patterns and probable series of events malware-based attacks generate (Wildstrom, 2009). In conjunction with these approaches...

The use of constraint-based technologies to create more effective monitoring and evaluation systems for ensuring system security continue to be developed (Wildstrom, 2009). The use of APIs and advanced security routines for managing the overall performance of .NET and ASP-based applications will continued to dominate the Windows 7 operating system roadmap as well (Lamb, 2006). Finally, Microsoft has also created a series of APIs specifically for enterprise-level integration of authentication, malware detection and quarantine, and a heavy reliance on a series of advanced API calls for monitoring patterns of system access and use at the disk I/O level specifically (Wildstrom, 2009). Microsoft in short has made security part of the innate design structure of the operating system itself.
Conclusion

The Microsoft Windows 7 operating system is the first to have a kernel-based architecture that replicates many of the functions included in Linux and UNIX. Microsoft, due to licensing and security concerns, does not recompile the kernel at every iteration. It rather relies on a series of APIs and subroutines, many of them based on the .NET standard, to specifically manage keeping the operating system and its applications secure.

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