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  2. WinUSB - Wikipedia

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    WinUSB is a generic USB driver provided by Microsoft, for their operating systems starting with Windows Vista but which is also available for Windows XP. It is aimed at simple devices that are accessed by only one application at a time (for example instruments like weather stations, devices that only need a diagnostic connection or for firmware upgrades).

  3. Windows Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    Network device drivers for Windows XP use NDIS 5.x and may work with subsequent Windows operating systems, but for performance reasons network device drivers should implement NDIS 6.0 or higher. Similarly, WDDM is the driver model for Windows Vista and up, which replaces XPDM used in graphics drivers.

  4. User-Mode Driver Framework - Wikipedia

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    docs .microsoft .com /en-us /windows-hardware /drivers /wdf /overview-of-the-umdf. 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.

  5. USB video device class - Wikipedia

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    macOS ships with a UVC driver included since version 10.4.3, [6] updated in 10.4.9 to work with iChat. [7] Windows Windows XP has a class driver for USB video class 1.0 devices since Service Pack 2, as does Windows Vista and Windows CE 6.0. A post-service pack 2 update that adds more capabilities is also available. [8] Windows 7 added UVC 1.1 ...

  6. Windows Display Driver Model - Wikipedia

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    It is a replacement for the previous Windows 2000 and Windows XP display driver model XDDM/XPDM [3] and is aimed at enabling better performance graphics and new graphics functionality and stability. [2] Display drivers in Windows Vista and Windows 7 can choose to either adhere to WDDM or to XDDM. [4]

  7. USB communications - Wikipedia

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    USB ports and cables are used to connect hardware such as printers, scanners, keyboards, mice, flash drives, external hard drives, joysticks, cameras, monitors, and more to computers of all kinds. USB also supports signaling rates from 1.5 Mbit/s (Low speed) to 80 Gbit/s (USB4 2.0) depending on the version of the standard.

  8. Features new to Windows 7 - Wikipedia

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    t. e. Some of the new features included in Windows 7 are advancements in touch, speech [1] and handwriting recognition, support for virtual hard disks, support for additional file formats, improved performance on multi-core processors, [2] improved boot performance, and kernel improvements.

  9. Compatibility mode - Wikipedia

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    A compatibility mode in an operating system is a software mechanism in which a computer's operating system emulates an older processor, operating system, and/or hardware platform in order to allow older software to remain compatible with the computer's newer hardware or software. This differs from a full-fledged emulator in that an emulator ...