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WHQL Log Viewer available

The first DTM Power Toy is available for download . This tool opens the packages you create to submit your drivers to WHQL letting you browse through the results and logs. Send feedback on the tool to whqldt@microsoft.com . If things go the way I hope Read More...
Posted Monday, August 14, 2006 3:45 PM by craigrow | 1 Comments

It's official, WinHEC 2007 in the Big Easy

This announcement has been made quietly. I guess my Campaign for anything bug Seattle can be retired now. Read More...
Posted Thursday, August 10, 2006 9:27 AM by craigrow | 5 Comments

New Wikipedia entry

I've been impressed with the value of Wikipedia lately. In the past using the Internet to search for information on an reasonably common topics often led to many useless links. Today I know I can go to Wikipedia and likely get good, topical information Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 02, 2006 9:06 AM by craigrow | 3 Comments

More driver blogs

Here is another new blog driver developers and testers will want to keep their eyes on. Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 8:37 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

Customizing Vista Setup

This capability of Vista Setup came up in a number of conversations during the recent WHQL event on campus. I don't think it has much application in the driver development and testing space but apparently it is an interesting capability so I'll share Read More...
Posted Monday, March 06, 2006 1:10 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments

Peter Wieland has started a blog

If you're at all involved with Windows driver development I expect you'll want to subscribe to this blog. I did. Read More...
Posted Friday, March 03, 2006 5:19 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments

Driver Dev Con and WinHEC

Steve asks a good question... "Any word on DevCon yet? " There is no Driver Dev Con planned for this year. That's pretty disappointing to everyone on the WDK team. If this is disappointing to you also, I recommend you let the WinHEC organizers know. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 11:16 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

WinHEC registration is open

http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/winhec/ I'm told registrations are significantly ahead of 2005's pace. Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 02, 2006 9:52 AM by craigrow | 2 Comments

Windows Deployment Services

Most of you are aware that we aren't going to be able to ship the ASI client setup CD with the WDK as we had hoped. This leaves you on your own when doing the initial install of the client's safe OS. Some of our partners have been successful in using Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 9:52 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

The best comment on the whole driver signing discussion

From Will Dean: "The real tragedy of driver-related BSODs is that in many applications people should never have needed to write KM code at all, let alone the ghastly 50 lines of application code surrounded by 5000 lines of impossible PnP/Power boilerplate. Read More...
Posted Friday, January 27, 2006 9:38 AM by craigrow | 4 Comments

I guess I touched a nerve...Vista driver signing requirements

This post seems to have touched some raw nerves. I wasn't expecting that but I'm not surprised either given all the feedback I've heard re: driver signing since the first beta of XP. I understand the frustrations, I also know that when Windows crashes Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 26, 2006 9:32 AM by craigrow | 4 Comments

Dell "X-Image"

Kevin Devin ran across Dell's X-Image tool . He wonders if this is not the same Microsoft Ximage tool. From this article you can see it clearly is not. Rather, it is an internally developed Dell tool they started work on in 2001. It was developed for Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 8:49 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

Great article describing Longhorn, a.k.a. Vista, setup and deployment

Paul Thurrott's Super Site for Windows is one I think I've liked to before. Today I discovered this excellent article . It is a bit old, but a good description of the basic feature none the less. The one thing I noticed that has changed, the LDT is now Read More...
Posted Tuesday, August 23, 2005 9:56 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

It's official Longhorn is now Windows Vista

Longhorn is now Windows Vista . I'm told it's pronounced vee-sta, with a long a. Apparently the name was announced yesterday at the Microsoft Global Briefing at the Georgia Dome. The email to everyone this morning says, "the name of our product captures Read More...
Posted Friday, July 22, 2005 10:05 AM by craigrow | 2 Comments
 
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