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You probably received separate e-mail from my team last week, announcing that registration for WinHEC 2007 is now open. We're working with teams across the Windows Division to create a great agenda, focusing on implementation details for advancing the Windows Hardware Platform with the Windows Vista and Windows Server codename "Longhorn" operating systems.
Pretending to be modest, I'd like to remind you of all the opportunities in past WinHEC events, where engineers and driver developers learned how to create new products that take advantage of the new Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn" operating systems. For example, WinHEC has focused on these hardware innovations over the past few years, with new products now appearing on the market: BitLocker Drive Encryption--in Windows Vista Enterprise and Ultimate. Microsoft DirectX 10 for eye-popping graphics and Flip and Flip 3D with Windows Aero for PCs with modern graphics hardware acceleration and WDDM drivers. Fast sleep and resume--based on end-to-end changes in power management support in Windows. Windows SideShow--for auxiliary display on mobile PCs and other innovative designs. Wireless networking advances--at home, in mobile computing, and for businesses and enterprise networks. XPS - XML Paper Specification--describing electronic paper in a way that can be read by hardware, software, and humans. Check out the new Community Promise for XPS, which starts with the words "Microsoft irrevocably promises... ."
People are only beginning to see the innovation that the PC industry is delivering in new hardware products that work with Windows Vista. This new era of innovation in PC and server products is just starting. Make sure that WinHEC 2007 is on your calendar--May 15-17 in Los Angeles--so that you can dig even deeper into the opportunities delivered for the PC industry in Windows Vista and Windows Server "Longhorn."
- Annie Pearson
for the WHDC Web team
WHDC After Dark:
Windows Hardware Platform: Concepts and Implementation
Windows Vista provides Web Services on Devices (WSD) as a connection protocol with printing and scanning peripherals. WSD describes a set of protocols for consuming and controlling services on network-connected devices. As part of the Windows Rally program, four Web Services specifications for printing and scanning are now available to help device manufacturers take advantage of the improved customer experience around connecting, installing, and using devices with Windows. Download the specifications and supporting files from the WHDC Web site. What you've been waiting for: Mark has begun writing regularly about Windows Vista internals. His first article looks at changes in processes and threads, I/O completion and cancellation, and I/O priority.
Windows Driver Foundation: Tips for Driver Developers
UMDF drivers do not require Code Integrity Signing because they aren't kernel-mode code. However, your driver package still must be signed so that it can't be tampered with and can be traced back to the author. And if your package includes any non-Microsoft kernel-mode drivers in addition to the user-mode driver, then the Code Integrity Signing rules apply to that, too. Find out more on Peter Wieland's blog.
Feedback for Windows Teams
The Windows Device Management and Install (DMI) team is seeking your feedback regarding driver installation on Windows Vista. The DMI Feedback Campaign is live from January 22 to February 21, 2007. To take the survey, you must have a Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account. To get started:
1. Go to the Microsoft Connect Web site at http://connect.microsoft.com/ and log on.
2. On the left navigation bar of the Connect site, click Invitations.
3. In the Invitation ID text box, type HNL-6VC6-G6WP, and then click Go.
4. To submit feedback to the DMI team, click Feedback in the left pane and follow the instructions on the site. If you are logged on, you can click Guidelines for Feedbacks and Questions for instructions. The Driver Test Manager team wants your input for the next release of Driver Test Manager (DTM). Complete this short survey on Microsoft Connect to help ensure that the next release of DTM meets your needs. To take the survey, you must have a Windows Live ID or Microsoft Passport account. The survey is located at https://connect.microsoft.com/site/sitehome.aspx?SiteID=148, near the bottom of the page under Surveys.
Windows Logo Program and WHQL News
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