Windows, server or desktop, the nearly ubiquitous “clicky-clicky draggy-draggy” operating system has a lot going on behind those pretty (relative to a command prompt at least) windows all over the screen. Have you ever thought about what an operating system does? In your role as a developer, system administrator, or data professional the operating system has critical impact on the work you do. Throughout the course of this session, we will take your first steps into workings of the Windows operating system, both what it does and the tools, like Process Explorer and WinDbg, to see what Windows is doing. You will leave the session with more insight as to what Windows does behind the scenes and how to see what it is doing.