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Windows Drivers of The Future

By Derek Sooman

On July 20, 2004, 11:54 AM

Microsoft is bringing in a new Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) which will hopefully begin to make up for some of the many deficiencies of the current driver model, which is kind of crap.

Some nice stuff here:

"One of the first things Microsoft has done in the new Windows Driver Foundation (WDF) is encapsulate boilerplate code in libraries. No more cut and paste. Just a call to a library that can be fixed, if necessary, with no impact on the millions of lines of code that depend on it, except that bugs will go away."

Hopefully this, and other advances going into Longhorn, will do something to improve the problems Windows users experience with poor drivers and the like.

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  1. July 20, 2004 5:12 PM
    SOB said:
    how cool, especially those of you wanting to pursue the formulating of device drivers. very interesting, stuff.
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  2. July 20, 2004 10:18 PM
    Federelli said:
    Let's hope the rest of the companies give us the drivers we consumers, diserve :O
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  3. July 22, 2004 2:01 AM
    Unregistered said:
    Well, it is almost the same promise that they make about WDM drivers a few years back... From "Model" to "Foundation", I guess that is a big leap for Microsoft :-P
    Reply

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