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Last week was certainly a big one here in Redmond: Microsoft produced a flood of releases, while El Niño rains flooded our roads and homes. You know that the Windows Vista operating system was released to manufacturing, but look at what else is now available.
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For your professional use:
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For your personal use:
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My question to you personally (since subscribers to this newsletter are PC industry professionals or early-adopters who are technically savvy): are you running Windows Vista yet for your everyday work--or planning to, as soon as Windows Vista is available to you?
Because I'm here to tell you from my personal experience: Windows Vista is great. Don't be shy about upgrading your current PC or planning your new PC purchase now. I've been running it every single day for months to reliably support all my work. Windows Vista gave me the smoothest upgrade for multiple monitor support ever--and I've been a multimon beta tester since they put the first bits into Windows 98, so I know how difficult that switch has been in the past.
I'm personally urging you to take advantage of the Express Upgrade to Windows Vista offer to jump to 21st Century hardware and new Windows Vista features at your earliest opportunity.
-- Annie Pearson
for the WHDC Web team
WHDC After Dark:
Hardware Design for Windows
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The release candidate of the porting kit for Link Layer Topology Discovery (LLTD) protocol is available on the Windows Rally Web site.
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Information for hardware and software developers on how to use the Windows Imaging Component framework to develop codecs so that their own image formats can obtain the same platform support as native image formats such as TIFF, JPEG, or Windows Media Photo.
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This new paper for hardware engineers and driver developers provides details on how to implement hardware and drivers that work well with Windows and meet Windows Logo Program requirements.
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To help developers easily debug problems, this paper describes the timeout detection and recovery (TDR) process in Windows Vista, plus related registry controls.
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Going Deep with Windows Experts
Craig met with the Channel 9 crew to talk about what he's thinking in terms of technical and platform strategy for Microsoft.
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Since Mark arrived at Microsoft, he's been blogging here and keeping people up to date with his investigations related to Windows troubleshooting, technologies, and security.
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Mark presents an analysis and explains more about how ASLR contributes to security advances in Windows Vista.
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Tips for Driver Developers
Learn to analyze Windows crash dumps, diagnose the cause, pinpoint a solution, and resolve the problem.
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Patrick M is sharing his experiences as he learns how to create a hybrid drive that has KMDF and UMDF components.
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Windows Logo Program and WHQL News
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The next LogoFest event is at the Hilton Hotel in Düsseldorf. This event is for hardware partners who have signed the Logo License Agreement LLA 9.1 or LLA 9.2 with Microsoft. Registration ends November 20. For details, see the Windows LogoFest Web page.
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