[wdmaudiodev] Re: Vista Audio Logo Program
- From: Jeff Pages <barefeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 3 May 2006 13:20:44 +1000
Hi Stephen,
Having the Windows Logo has been a strong selling point for us, and we do have
customers whose IT departments won't allow hardware to be installed on any of
their systems unless it's Microsoft-certified. We've also received very
positive feedback from customers about the stability of our products, and I'm
sure a lot of that stems from going the extra mile to pass all the HCTs. It's
also my understanding that only signed audio drivers can play DRM-protected
content.
I'm very concerned that specialised products like ours are being shoehorned out
by the narrowing view of what constitutes an "acceptable" audio device. We
already have the minimalist functionality of the virtualised mixer API in Vista
and other reported difficulties with the beta releases, and I'm sure there'll
be further surprises for those devices that are a bit different from the norm
when RC1 finally appears.
Thanks for your comments on our NAB stand. By all accounts it was a very
successful show for us.
Jeff
---- stephen turner <sgturner@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Jeff
>
> I'm curious as to why you see getting the Designed for Vista logo for your
> products as necessary. I'd say pretty much all of our radio broadcast
> customers don't care (or even know) about such "logos". They just want our
> product to work 24/7/365. This usually boils down to - test, test, test (on
> as wide a variety of computer h/w as possible).
>
> By the way, I had the pleasure of meeting some of your Innes Corp team at the
> recent NAB show. The RadCap cards seem very cool!.
>
> -steve
> ----------------------
> Stephen Turner
> AudioScience, Inc.
> www.audioscience.com
>
>
> -------- Original Message --------
> > From: "Jeff Pages" <barefeet@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 02, 2006 1:52 PM
> > To: wdmaudiodev@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> > Subject: [wdmaudiodev] Re: Vista Audio Logo Program
> >
> > 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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