I am a long-time Mac user looking to gain a decent understanding of Windows. I want to be able to control the environment, understand how the OS fits together and, eventually I guess, think about application development. I'm not really interested in the history except as it is still relevant to Windows 7.
I'm competent with the Mac and UNIX/Linux environment. I live in C, Objective-C, Bash, Python, JavaScript, AppleScript and PHP. As such I want something that is introductory but not aimed at beginners.
Can anyone recommend a decent book (or other resource) to get me started?
TIA
Superficially
Just start using the languages.
Deeper - good places to start digging
Finally know that you cannot fork Win32 processes in Windows, and that apps are attached at a deep level to licensing related "Desktop" and "Window Station" objects.
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I started on a UNIX machine, went to the Mac, then to Windows, then finally wound up running Windows and Mac together ... on a Mac Pro. Of the languages you mention, C, Python, Javascript and PHP, there aren't really any differences worth talking about between Mac and Windows. AppleScript, obviously, is non-existent and I'm not sure about Objective C, since I don't use it.
I would recommend you use something like VMWare Fusion to make Windows virtual machines on your Mac. That's what I do. That way you can script batch files in Unix and apply them to your Windows environment.
If that's not a possibility, for Bash you can use Cygwin on Windows. It's a UNIX version of the Windows command line, and lets you do pretty much what you can do in UNIX.
It would be worth your while to learn the .Net framework as well. If you are developing for Windows you will probably want to get Visual Studio. Learning C# is about the best thing you could start with, as it is fast becoming the lingua franca of Windows.
I can't point you to any books, since the ones I used to learn Windows are about 10 years old now, but I hope this brief intro helps.
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