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USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista

April 5, 2006 Apr 5, 2006 04/5/06

Raymond Chen

My colleague Nick Kramer who works over on WPF has the first of what will be a series of articles on USER and GDI compatibility in Windows Vista. The changes to tighten security, improve support for East Asian languages, and take the desktop to a new level with the Desktop Window Manager (among others) make for quite an interesting ...

Adding flags to APIs to work around driver bugs doesn't scale

April 5, 2006 Apr 5, 2006 04/5/06

Raymond Chen

Some people suggested, as a solution to the network interoperability compatibility problem, adding a flag to to indicate whether the caller wanted to use fast or slow enumeration. Adding a flag to work around a driver bug doesn't actually solve anything in the long term. Considering all the video driver bugs that Windows has had to work...