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By early 2000, Windows Me was reportedly behind schedule, and an interim build containing the new automatic update feature was released to allay concerns about a delayed-release. In February 2000, Paul Thurrott revealed that Microsoft had planned to exclude Windows Me, as well as new releases of Windows NT 4.0, from CD shipments for MSDN ...
User-Mode Driver Framework (UMDF) is a device-driver development platform first introduced with Microsoft's Windows Vista operating system, and is also available for Windows XP. It facilitates the creation of drivers for certain classes of devices. [1]
During that time no generic USB mass-storage driver was produced by Microsoft (including for Windows 98), and a device-specific driver was needed for each type of USB storage device. Third-party, freeware drivers became available for Windows 98 and Windows 98SE, and third-party drivers are also available for Windows NT 4.0.
Microsoft added native support for UAS to Windows 8. [13] Drives supporting UAS load Uaspstor.sys instead of the older Usbstor.sys. [14] Windows 8 supports UAS by default over USB 2.0 as well. [15] UAS drivers and products are certified by Microsoft using the Windows Hardware Certification Kit. [16]
Windows Me: Millennium: September 14, 2000 4.90 Windows Me; 3000 IA-32: July 11, 2006 Windows XP: Whistler: October 25, 2001 NT 5.1 Windows XP Starter; Windows XP Home; Windows XP Professional; 2600 IA-32: April 8, 2014 Windows XP 64-bit Edition; Itanium: Freestyle: October 29, 2002 Windows XP Media Center Edition; IA-32: Harmony: September 30 ...
Windows Driver Frameworks (WDF, formerly Windows Driver Foundation), is a set of Microsoft tools and libraries that aid in the creation of device drivers for Windows 2000 and later versions of Windows. It complements Windows Driver Model, abstracting away much of the boilerplate complexity in writing Windows drivers.
The xHCI reduces the need for periodic device polling by allowing a USB 3.0 or later device to notify the host controller when it has data available to read, and moves the management of polling USB 2.0 and 1.1 devices that use interrupt transactions from the CPU-driven USB driver to the USB host controller.
Though a support document listed October 4, 2021, as the initial release date, [71] Microsoft officially released Windows 11 on October 5, 2021, [8] [72] as an opt-in, in-place upgrade through either the Windows 11 Installation Assistant application (which can perform the upgrade, or generate an ISO image or USB install media), or via Windows ...