About David Solomon

David Solomon is a world renowned expert on on Windows operating system internals. Thousands of developers and IT professionals have attended his classes. Microsoft contracts David to regularly teach their developers and support personnel worldwide.

Formerly a Consulting Software Engineer at Digital Equipment Corporation, David worked for over 9 years as a project leader and developer in the VMS operating system development group. He developed the Windows NT in OpenVMS Terms seminar series, which he delivered to over 1000 students worldwide.

He is the co-author of Windows Internals, the official Microsoft Press book series on the inner workings of the kernel:

• Windows Internals, 5th edition (Vista & Server 2008)
• Windows Internals, 4th edition (Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000)
• Inside Windows 2000, 3rd edition (Windows 2000)
• Inside Windows NT, 2nd edition (Windows NT 4.0)

He also wrote Windows NT for OpenVMS Professionals (Digital Press/Butterworth Heinemann).

In addition to organizing and teaching seminars, David has served as technical chair for three past Windows NT conferences and has spoken at WinDev, Windows World, Software Development, five Microsoft Professional Developers Conferences (PDC), many Microsoft TechEd conferences, MSJ Developers Academy, and DECUS. He was named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) award in 1993, 2005, 2006, 2007 ,and 2008.