For Windows codenamed “Longhorn,” Microsoft is investing in the development infrastructure for industry partners, as well as investing in technologies and innovations that continue to expand the PC capabilities and experiences for end-users—including support for advancing technologies such as PCI Express, new storage technologies, and robust advances for both wired and wireless networking. This site provides pointers to technical information for hardware, driver, and firmware engineers who are planning and creating new products that will run Windows “Longhorn.”
Resources for Windows Longhorn Driver Development
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Wow. MS must be really serious about drivers now. they are releasing driver development info 2 years before production.
> Wow. MS must be really serious about drivers now. they are releasing driver development info 2 years before production.
Remember that if you are a software vendor and want our drivers in the release of a Windows OS – you must have those drivers to them at least 8 months – 1 year before release date of that Windows OS.
Microsoft just wants to give all the hardware vendors a break from supporting old garbage, like nVidia Geforce cards, and basicially retire all the 2003 top-of-the-line, you-paid-WHAT-for-it type garbage.
They are probibly going to throw in that the Win2k drivers that got shoe-horned into XP are dogmeat.
And also they are going to change the adjective ‘signed’ to blessed or ‘they-paid-us-a-lot-of-money (TPUALOM).
Progress is wonderfull, especially if your an investor in hardware vendors. Leave all those $4,000 server boards in landfill….etc…
i see so much arguments about os vs os these days. sometimes really hate it more than i hate microsoft!!!
microsoft is bad and windows is the worst in 3(win,gnu,osx). hell over 95%+ of people are using it.
this isnt goin to change anytime soon(maybe forever).
windows will continue to be dominant.
wake up pls.
theres alot of things which is not for us to decide.
Are you going to be posting this many Longhorn “news” every week for two (three?) years untill it’s release? I’m not trying to troll here, but it is getting somewhat anoying..
This is all fine and dandy, but don’t believe it till the OS is on the market. There is still plenty of time for Microsoft to change there mind SIGNIFICANTLY!