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A Hole In My Head
Doron Holan's musings on drivers and other nibbles and bits

•	Developing Drivers with the Windows® Driver Foundation, i.e. the WDF book, is apparently out of print Thu, 26 Aug 2010 05:31:56 GMT
•	Arbitration and Translation, Part 3 Fri, 07 May 2010 00:14:56 GMT
•	Translation and Windows Thu, 06 May 2010 22:12:00 GMT

It Goes To Eleven
Jonathan Morrison's Blog on the Windows Kernel, Windows Kernel Debugging and Other Random Stuff

•	Preventing Race Conditions in Code That Accesses Global Data Wed, 11 Nov 2009 20:28:00 GMT
•	Runtime Code Patching - Not for the Faint of Heart Wed, 14 May 2008 21:37:00 GMT
•	Getting the Crashing Stack From a Bugcheck Wed, 07 May 2008 11:00:00 GMT

Static Driver Tools

•	PFD/SDV Clean - SDV Roletypes in Samples and Shipping Drivers Sat, 27 Jun 2009 02:27:00 GMT
•	Example of how the Annotations in WDM.H and OACR catch a bug on the developer desktop (PFD/SDV "Clean" 2 of 6) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:27:00 GMT
•	PFD and SDV Clean: Improving the Quality of Headers and Samples in the WDK and Windows 7 (Part 1 of 6) Sat, 13 Jun 2009 01:14:00 GMT

Pointless Blathering
Peter Wieland's thoughts on Windows driver development, and occasional rants about computing in general.

•	New KMDF white-paper out on writing a bus driver Tue, 21 Oct 2008 20:48:59 GMT
•	Pedantic Coder: Hungarian Notation Mon, 13 Oct 2008 18:00:00 GMT
•	I've been style sheet hacking again Sat, 11 Oct 2008 00:08:00 GMT

driver writing != bus driving
Ilias Tsigkogiannis' Introduction to Windows Device Drivers

•	So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Good-bye... Wed, 01 Sep 2010 23:10:19 GMT
•	New Blog: USB Core Team Wed, 07 Oct 2009 02:37:00 GMT
•	KMDF Debugging Videos Tue, 22 Sep 2009 22:29:00 GMT

My travels with WDF
The continuing story of a boy, his dog and their discovery of the world outside...of WDM.

•	Heads up! Thu, 26 Aug 2010 18:14:05 GMT
•	Time keeps on slippin’ Tue, 03 Aug 2010 21:15:48 GMT
•	A funny thing happened on the way to the keyboard Fri, 28 May 2010 19:04:19 GMT

Craig Rowland - Developing, Testing and Getting a Logo for Your Drivers

•	Direct Link to WLK Support Tue, 29 Apr 2008 04:23:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 = Done Wed, 09 Apr 2008 20:33:00 GMT
•	WLK 1.2 is Almost Ready Thu, 03 Apr 2008 20:14:33 GMT

Device Connectivity

USB Core Team Blog

•	How to recover from USB errors? (Part 1) Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:15:00 GMT
•	USB Driver Documentation Updates in the MSDN Library Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:30:00 GMT
•	Multi-config USB devices and Windows Wed, 19 May 2010 00:27:00 GMT

Networking

Windows Core Networking
Windows Core Networking APIs and technologies such as Winsock, TCP/IP stack, WFP, IPsec, IPv6, WSK, WinINet, Http.sys, WinHttp, QoS, and System.Net

•	Final version of Windows Web Services API for Windows XP, Vista, Server 2003 and Server 2008 is now available! Fri, 09 Oct 2009 23:32:00 GMT
•	Why didn’t my cached content revalidate to the web server? (IE8 edition) Mon, 06 Jul 2009 23:33:50 GMT
•	HTTP Connection Management Fri, 08 May 2009 19:29:00 GMT

Security

Michael Howard's Web Log
A Simple Software Security Guy at Microsoft!

•	Security Sessions at TechEd in Australia and New Zealand Sun, 06 Sep 2009 23:20:00 GMT
•	ATL, MS09-035 and the SDL Tue, 28 Jul 2009 20:43:00 GMT
•	Integrating the SDL process into Visual Studio Tue, 19 May 2009 19:53:27 GMT

WDK and WLK Documentation

Windows Driver Kit (WDK) Documentation Blog

•	How to Find the WDK Documentation You’re Looking For Tue, 08 Jun 2010 21:43:00 GMT
•	WDK Documentation Republished on MSDN Tue, 30 Mar 2010 22:27:00 GMT
•	Goodbye Doc Explorer Sat, 30 Jan 2010 04:04:00 GMT

Display and Graphics

XPS Team Blog - XML Paper Specification and the Open Packaging Conventions

•	Printing and Document Features for the Platform Update for Windows Vista Thu, 10 Sep 2009 20:16:00 GMT
•	New Office 2010 Printing Functionality Thu, 23 Jul 2009 21:24:15 GMT
•	Hello Ecma-388 1st Edition Thu, 16 Jul 2009 19:59:00 GMT

Performance

Windows Server Performance Team Blog
Windows Server Operating System Performance information, tools and discussion

•	Increase VMBus buffer sizes to increase network throughput to guest VMs Tue, 02 Feb 2010 21:22:00 GMT
•	NUMA Node Balancing Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:56:00 GMT
•	File Server Capacity Tool (FSCT) 1.0 Fri, 13 Nov 2009 19:06:00 GMT

Platform Design

VolkerW's WebLog
Stuff mostly about Windows Fundamentals Also chirping at: http://twitter.com/volkerw

•	Want to become an Evangelist at Microsoft? Thu, 26 Aug 2010 16:09:00 GMT
•	TechEd Berlin Coming in November Wed, 25 Aug 2010 23:14:39 GMT
•	Future Proof Your IT Skills Mon, 23 Aug 2010 20:29:32 GMT

Windows Server Division WebLog
Focusing on Windows Server 2008 R2 and Hyper-V, Storage Server, High Performance Computing, and Small Business Server

•	SP1: the Bite-Sized Versions Mon, 02 Aug 2010 22:33:31 GMT
•	Linux Integration Services version 2.1 goes RTM Thu, 29 Jul 2010 23:01:43 GMT
•	Direct Edge stock exchange launches on Windows Server, SQL Server Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:40:48 GMT

Windows Virtualization Team Blog

•	Items of interest from VMworld 2010 Wed, 01 Sep 2010 17:34:08 GMT
•	Why Does Microsoft exhibit at VMworld? Tue, 24 Aug 2010 17:23:34 GMT
•	Go vote Tue, 10 Aug 2010 23:39:18 GMT

Windows Internals and Troubleshooting

Mark's Blog
Mark Russinovich's technical blog covering topics such as Windows troubleshooting, technologies and security.

•	The Compound Case of the Outlook Hangs Tue, 24 Aug 2010 08:00:00 GMT
•	The Case of the Random IE Crash Tue, 01 Jun 2010 16:37:00 GMT
•	The Case of the Printing Failure Mon, 12 Apr 2010 17:18:27 GMT

Windows Portable Devices

Windows Portable Devices Team Blog

•	Sensors and Windows Thu, 17 Dec 2009 20:03:00 GMT
•	Windows 7 Device Implementation Guidelines for Picture and Video Import Sat, 14 Nov 2009 00:51:42 GMT
•	WPD Platform Update for Windows Vista Wed, 28 Oct 2009 01:04:58 GMT

Windows Sensor and Location Platform

Sensor & Location Platform Team Blog

•	Using an Accelerometer to Build a Game Controller Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 GMT
•	Making Sense of Sensor Permissions Fri, 25 Jun 2010 18:00:00 GMT
•	Understanding Access Denied when working with ISensor::GetState() and ISensor::GetProperty() Wed, 28 Apr 2010 00:00:00 GMT

Windows Sideshow

Windows SideShow Team Blog

•	Logitech G19 and G15 keyboards support Windows SideShow! Fri, 15 May 2009 00:59:00 GMT
•	How to Make Sure Your Windows Mobile Device Stays Connected With Windows 7 RC Tue, 05 May 2009 19:50:00 GMT
•	New SideShow-compatible devices from Mini-Box! Mon, 04 May 2009 20:53:00 GMT

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