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Until threads that are suspended or blocked become ready to run, the scheduler does not allocate any processor time to them, regardless of their priority (2/8)
Because Windows implements a preemptive scheduler, if another thread with higher priority becomes ready to run, the currently running thread might be preempted before finishing its time slice. (3/8)
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