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From the Editor
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For my team at Microsoft, the first season of the year is not Spring--it's WinHEC. WinHEC season begins soon after New Year's Day and lasts until... today. While folks in New England are shoveling snow, we're working with Windows teams to sift through a mountain of content to find the best for WinHEC. When lilacs in the dooryard bloom, we don't notice-because we're busy helping developers
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cultivate lush architecture diagrams in their Microsoft® PowerPoint® slide decks. So, when we finally walk onsite at WinHEC, it's with the same pleasure that others experience when the swallows return: "Look! We're back!" And after months of effort, everyone gets to "spring" forth and share their work with friends and partners.
Mark Roddy, an MVP who spent some of his free time recently exploring Windows Driver Foundation by actually building a USB driver, commented, "Do I like WDF? I was able to bring up new hardware after a week, when it would usually take months, and I had the driver debugged and operational after a month, when it would have taken a less experienced developer 12 to 18 months with WDM."
At WinHEC, Microsoft teams have been talking about many exciting new technologies planned for Microsoft Windows codenamed "Longhorn." We're hoping that the technical information provided at the event--which we are now programming for delivery on the WHDC Web site--is helping device and system manufacturers learn how to build products that advance new scenarios for enterprise and consumer customers.
One example of breakthrough technologies announced at WinHEC that Windows teams are excited to be discussing is Secure Startup - Full Volume Encryption, a hardware-based security feature that uses Trusted Platform Module (TPM) 1.2 to protect user data and to ensure that a computer running Windows Longhorn has not been tampered with while the system was offline.
Another example is Metro Print Path. "The response to Metro has been overwhelmingly positive at WinHEC." said Vicki Milton, the technical product planner for the Windows Digital Documents Platform and Solutions team at Microsoft. "It's been a pleasure demonstrating and communicating the value that Metro brings to end users, developers, and Windows. Metro solves some long-standing problems in the print pipeline, and our WinHEC audience recognizes this immediately."
At WinHEC, we also unveiled information about new programs that support designing Windows Longhorn Ready PCs and that help you to plan future products based on the proposed Windows Logo Program requirements.
And driver developers are already getting tools and information to simplify the development of robust drivers:
WHDC After Dark. Every one of us has been locked in WinHEC and Driver DevCon sessions all week (okay, we did slip out at night for a couple of parties). But we found these incredibly helpful links for people who have only an Internet link to the outside world:
Annie Pearson
for the WHDC team
New from the WinHEC Technical Contributors
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Here's a sample of implementation guidelines and future directions that the Microsoft teams discussed at WinHEC.
Audio, Media, and Portable Device Design and Driver Support
Device Connectivity
Networking Device Design and Driver Support
System and Firmware Design
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