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tl;dr Last week (week of 5 July 2020) OSR found and reported a bug to Microsoft that has both security and reliability implications for driver developers. New functions introduced in Read more

TL;DR: Shortcut to a PDF version of the NTSTATUS to Win32 ERROR code mapping table: PDF version of The Table here Some time ago, for reasons known only to our Read more

Update 1 April 2020: VS 2019 V16.5.2 has been released, and it does appear to fix both problems reported in this post. TL;DR DO NOT update VS 2019 beyond 16.4.0, Read more

One of the most common requests that we’ve received over the years about our seminars has been to allow people to attend remotely, online, via the Internet. But we waited, Read more

It was back in 2015 that I wrote my first set of blog posts on Windows driver signing. Then I wrote some more in 2016. And then in 2017 I Read more

When I was first named a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional, back in the early 2000’s, I was very proud. Really, I was. There was a cohort of smart, generous, and Read more

Well, OK… It’s not really 1809 anymore. It’s actually 1810 when I’m writing this.  But whatever.  There’s a new WDK among us. Before you can install WDK 1809, you’ll need Read more

We’re ready… well, at least we think we’re ready.  Are YOU? New web site:  community.osr.com Questions/Comments/Issues: CommunityMove@osr.com To summarize key points about the move: The move is scheduled to take Read more

We have finally fixed on a date when the NTDEV, NTFSD, and WINDBG community site will move: Wednesday, 19 September 2018. Two weeks from now. That’s the TARGET date.  Assuming Read more

It’s been two whole weeks since a bug in Visual Studio and the Windows Driver Kit has caused all forward progress on a project to stop. So, it must be Read more