hi, hello, I finally bring to you: a write-up/paper/whatever you want to call it of how the Windows servicing stack works and how desktop Windows images are assembled by Microsoft's build systems, in turn exposing a very big part of the mechanisms behind the OS installation process
this has been in the works for months now, and I'm so glad to have finally finished documenting this unnecessarily overengineered mess of a package management system.
would not have been possible without the help of several others.