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Nothing Too Big, Nothing Too Small! We're at WinHEC this week with a few thousand of our closest friends. As you may have heard, this morning Bill Gates announced and demo'd key features of the Windows Server 2008 operating system.

Our Microsoft developers and managers together with our industry partners are presenting key information to help product designers and driver developers take advantage of crucial new features for server products--like Windows Hardware Error Architecture, the new boot environment, and more. If you can't attend WinHEC in Los Angeles this week, you can read about many of these topics in Hardware Support and Directions for Windows Server, which provides reference material for engineers who design servers and components.

Although Windows Server 2008 features are generating a great deal of interest, here at WinHEC we're looking across the full range of the hardware platform--from large-scale solutions for servers to the pocket devices that work with Windows Vista client systems. A lot of the question-and-answer exchanges and labs at WinHEC are focused on solutions for media devices. If you're not in Los Angeles this week, you can still get your hands on the design and implementation advice that the Microsoft crew is sharing. For example:

 Accessing WMDRM APIs from a Windows Portable Devices (WPD) Application: Guidelines for how to access the Windows Media Digital Rights Management (WMDRM) application APIs from a WPD application--including all supported devices for Windows Vista and Windows XP with Windows Media Player 11.

 Building a Network Device Compatible with Windows Media Player 11: How to take advantage of new Media Sharing capabilities in new designs for network audio/video devices that work with Windows Vista and Windows XP.

 Building Devices with the MTP Porting Kit v12: How to bring up the MTP stack on your device, with recommendations for sequence of actions and code organization, and supported features for devices that work with Windows Vista and Windows XP.

 Creating a WPD Driver for a Microcontroller-Based Sensor: How to create a simple driver that connects a temperature sensor through the WPD API to a sample application for devices that work with Windows Vista and Windows XP.

 Taking Advantage of Windows Image Acquisition 2.0: How to write drivers and applications that use the new stream-based transfer model and other new features introduced in Windows Vista.

There's a host of new material that you can find on our WinHEC 2007 Conference Papers page. Still -- we wish you were here!

-- Annie Pearson
for the WHDC Web team

WHDC After Dark:

Can't come to Los Angeles? Visit Virtual WinHEC: Check out the videos, the blogs, and the day-to-day news!

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May 15, 2007

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