[wdmaudiodev] Re: Vista Audio Logo Program
- From: "Jeff Pages" <barefeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 06:51:12 +1000
Hakon wrote:
Specialized, high-end low market share solutions (relative to the
approx. 177 million PCs sold a year) is not the main target of
our initiative but since it is perfectly possible to implement these
devices in a Logo compliant manner and since communication
about and evangelism of this initiative has been going on for the
last 4 years there is no exception if you want the Designed for
Windows Vista Basic or Premium Logo on your device.
I understand where Microsoft is coming from on this, however it is NOT
"perfectly possible" to implement more specialised audio devices in a
UAA-compliant manner. An example of this is our radio capture card, which
passes digitised RF across the PCI buss and uses SSE code in the driver to
demodulate multiple radio stations into virtual audio capture devices. This
passes the HCTs for Windows XP and Server 2003, but will be left totally out
in the cold (from any sort of driver certification perspective) under Vista
and beyond. It's become a no-man's land where it's too audio-like to be
regarded as "unclassified" but not audio-enough to be UAA.
I'm also left wondering about future support for the interfaces used by
non-UAA audio devices (WaveCyclic, WavePCI and even WaveRT). If such devices
are now considered pariahs, will they be allowed to install at all further
down the track?
Jeff
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