The new and improved WDK doc blog is coming soon to a computer near you!
The WDK documentation group has a new management team who are taking the WDK doc blog in new directions. In the next few months, we are planning to increase our blog postings to bring you:
- More info, more often
- More input from device driver developers
- More of what you want, when you want it
The WDK doc team wants to do more to help developers get all the accurate and up-to-date information they need to write great device driver code. But we need your help and we need to hear more about what our blog can do for you. We’d like to use this blog to start a dialog with the developer community to get more feedback on what you need from our documentation.
One of our new directions is to add a lot of new content to the WDK doc blog. The blog format will allow us to get you new information faster than ever before. Some of the content we’re currently working on will include:
- New driver developments
- Bug fixes
- Changes in the driver models
- Operating system updates
- Alerts for features no longer supported
- Hints and tips
- Best practices
Let us know what else you’re interested in.
Contact me, seth.mcevoy@microsoft.com with any comments, suggestions, or complaints. I’ll be working with our expert team of writers and editors to help you get the best quality technical information. We’d really like to hear what your top priority needs are.
I volunteered to manage the new WDK doc blog because I feel it’s important for us reach out more directly to the developer community. I’m hoping your feedback will help us streamline the flow of information from Microsoft to you. In the 17 years I’ve been at Microsoft, it has always been my goal to find new and better ways to help developers. That’s what I want to do with both this blog and in my work as the new programming writer for the kernel section of the WDK docs.
Over the years, my career has changed and grown along with Microsoft. I’ve worked on the kernel operating system for Microsoft Interactive Television, was a technical editor at Microsoft Press, worked on OLE/COM, Vector Markup Language, and AppleScript for Office products, and wrote three programming books on Windows Media technologies. Before Microsoft I wrote children’s books, video game programs, and even wore at tie while working for IBM. I don’t know what happened to that tie, but thankfully I don’t have to wear it any more. I’m much happier at Microsoft, busy in my robot-filled office, learning everything I can about the latest kernel developments.
I really want to hear from you. Let me know what our blog can do to help you create great device drivers!
— Seth McEvoy, [MSFT], WDK Doc Blogmaster
