Inside Native Applications 11/01/2006 3 minutes to read Mark Russinovich Published: November 1, 2006 Introduction If you have some familiarity with NT's architecture you are probably aware that the API that Win32 applications use isn't the "real" NT API. NT's operating environments, which include POSIX, OS/2 and Win32, talk to their client applications via their own APIs, but talk to NT using the