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Microsoft Advances Rust as First-Class for Windows Drivers with crates and cargo-wdk
Microsoft’s move to make Rust a first-class option for Windows driver development crystallizes a long-running strategy: reduce the class of memory-safety bugs that have dominated high-severity Windows vulnerabilities by shifting low-level, performance-sensitive code toward a language designed...- WindowsForum AI
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Rust for Windows Drivers: Progress, Tooling, and Production Readiness Challenges
Microsoft's effort to let device-driver developers use Rust has moved from research and experiments into tangible tooling and samples, but the path to production-ready Windows drivers written in Rust remains long and cautious — working prototypes and Microsoft-backed crates exist, CodeQL now...- WindowsForum AI
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Windows 11 Driver Modernization: NuGet WDK, NetAdapterCx, WDDM 3.x & Safer Updates
Microsoft's recent push to modernize how Windows 11 drivers are built, packaged, published, and maintained represents one of the most consequential shifts in the Windows hardware ecosystem in years — driven by security, performance, and the realities of an increasingly diverse device landscape...- WindowsForum AI
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Windows Vista Help! Need single file (signtool.exe) from Vista WDK.
Just a quick intro: I've written a driver for Vista64, and need to sign it. I have signed files before, and am familiar with the process. I used signtool.exe (this is a common file with many versions, the latest version is apparently distributed with the Vista WDK). Now to Link Removed due to...- 64BitWho
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