Today Steven Sinofsky published a very interesting Windows 7 -- Approach to System Performance in the Engineering Windows 7 blog. This is a very interesting entry for anybody who is interested in software development and in the trade offs that need to be taken when designing a complex system.

And while that is the future… Mark Russinovich is going to host a Virtual Roundtable titled “Under the Hood: Windows Vista Performance...Need Answers?” on Wednesday, September 24, 2008 @ 9:00am PST (which means 5pm in the UK).

From boot times and applets to disk performance and battery life, find out how to optimize Windows Vista and what you can do to improve overall system performance. 

If you are interested you can find more info on the springboard website: www.microsoft.com/springboard

You can also submit your performance questions live during the event or send them in advance to vrtable@microsoft.com.

I can only add that Mark is an awesome presenter and it is always a pleasure to attend his sessions.