Shul'min

The article describes an attempt of creating a formalized structural model of Windows 2000 OS. The authors present structural descriptions which lay no claim to a functional analysis. All the information in the article is obtained from the open sources (Microsoft Press [1]), or was obtained independently as a result of reverse-study of the system components. The authors propose a definition of the OS structure which, in turn, includes descriptions of the structures of its base components - such as the environment subsystem block, system support library, actuator system, operating system kernel, device drivers, system processes. The system basic structural components are given with the indication of their interrelation.