One of my favourite books ever. Raymond Chen's blog of the same name has a new and almost always very interesting article about software development (on Windows in particular, of course) every workday. The most interesting and entertaining blog posts were expanded and make up the book. Chen has formidable talents both as a programmer, as well as as a writer.
A bit of Raymond Chen trivia: he is as far as I know the only person to appear in the Linux kernel credits file with an @microsoft.com email address.
Huh. Looks like it's for scripts/Configure, which doesn't exist in the 2.6 series? Was this an older version of `make config`?
There are certainly a lot of people in `git log --author=microsoft.com` (and in MAINTAINERS), for Hyper-V guest drivers and the like.