Windows Vista

[Bob Rasmussen]

On Mon, 19 Mar 2007, Bill Campbell wrote:

> Let's see.  XP has been around since August 2001 or so.  One would think
> that the driver writers would have been able to get it right in six years
> or so.  Perhaps the problem is Microsoft's constantly changing things under
> The hood that break working drivers.  

There is neither conspiracy or surprise here. In Vista, MS wanted to make 
it possible to provide enhanced vide, such as 3-D rotation and 
transparency. So they defined a new set of calls that drivers need to meet 
(to provide these features), and it takes the driver writers a little 
while to get it ironed out. 

> Then again, having the video drivers in the kernel is simply asking for 
> trouble.

I was not aware that they were in the kernel. Can you substantiate that?

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