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From the Editor
Making PCs New Again: Windows Vista plus new PC designs. On the WHDC Web site, we've been publishing a wide range of implementation and design guidelines from Windows development teams. These papers show how to implement hardware that takes advantage of dynamic new features in the Windows Vista operating system. Let me highlight some recent guidelines from the Windows developers.
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Hardware buttons provide quick and easy access to common functionality. This white paper provides guidelines and art files for hardware designers who are creating mobile PCs (including Tablet PCs) that will run Windows Vista. The guidelines pertain to system and navigation buttons, display and application buttons, and buttons to provide direct access to certain features in Windows Vista, such as Windows Mobility Center and Windows Flip 3D.
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In Windows Vista, brightness controls are implemented via the monitor driver, which implements a Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) interface to allow applications to interact with the brightness level. System designers can use this interface to expose the control of brightness to the end user in their value-add software, hot keys, or power policy settings. The Windows Display team provides this paper to explain key scenarios, implementation guidelines, and Windows Logo Program requirements.
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Windows Vista provides built-in support for launching applications directly from system startup. Windows HotStart takes advantage of ACPI and OnNow power management and works together with platform hardware. By using Windows HotStart, system designers can add friendly application-access buttons on chassis front panels or remote controls.
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Windows Vista offers new capabilities for human interface device (HID)-based pointing devices to support smooth pointer movement based on wheel actions, better navigation for high-resolution and high-dpi screens, and finer granularity for scrolling through applications. The Windows Device Experience Group provides these guidelines for hardware designers who are developing input devices and for application developers to take advantage of wheel support in Windows Vista.
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This updated specification provides hardware designers with requirements and recommendations for implementing the Windows Vista Hardware Start Button.
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- Annie Pearson
for the WHDC Web team
WHDC After Dark:
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Doron Holan Discusses KMDF on Channel 9: If you've been following Doron's blog, you know he can be very clear about kernel-mode development issues and Kernel-Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) solutions. This exciting discussion also gives you a peek at the kernel-mode driver state diagrams.
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Windows Internals
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Windows services are applications that typically start when the computer is booted and run quietly in the background until it is shut down. This new white paper from the Windows Base team provides an overview of the changes to the services model for Windows Vista, together with some best-practices guidelines for developers who implement services for Windows. See also:
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Hardware Design for Windows Vista
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Information in this new paper guides vendors who implement Intel HD Audio systems in validating their pin configuration register programming. This information is provided to help ensure that logical devices are correctly exposed by the Universal Audio Architecture (UAA) HD Audio class driver and to provide information about the UAA compliance portion of the Windows Logo Program tests.
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Michael Stokes, Microsoft Color Architect, presents details for hardware and software vendors who want to take advantage of advanced color management capabilities in Windows Vista. These slides are from the technical seminar presented in July in Tokyo, Japan.
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Microsoft invites hardware vendors designing ExpressCard or PCIe add-in cards to take advantage of this opportunity to test and validate their hardware running on Windows Vista systems and to work with Microsoft developers and testers to understand the changes in Windows Vista. To make arrangements to submit your PCIe devices and drivers to Microsoft for testing or for questions about PCI Express support, send e-mail to: pciesup@microsoft.com
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Windows Vista - Driver Developer Kits, Tools, and Programs
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Hardware and Driver Developer Community
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This newsletter is composed and formatted on PCs running the Microsoft Windows Vista operating system.
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