Windows Testing Resources
Links
Windows Vista Home Page
Microsoft's official home page for the Vista operating system.
Windows Vista TechCenter
Official site of the new operating system Vista which provides various technical resources for IT Professionals.
Windows Server 2003 Home Page
Microsoft's official site for Windows Server 2003.
Windows XP Home Page
Microsoft's official home page for the XP operating
system.
Microsoft USA Events and Webcasts
Microsoft holds hundreds of technical events every year
around the country. You will find the presentation materials associated with the
past events or an event you attended. Although the target audience of these
events are developers, IT professionals, Microsoft's partners and resellers,
rather than testers, testing staff will find great overviews on various topics
including Windows platform, security, performance and scalibility discussions.
Microsoft Component Object Model Home Page
Everything you need to know about Microsoft's Component
Object Model (COM) technologies including Distributed COM (DCOM), COM+, MSMQ,
Microsoft Transaction Server (MTS), ActiveX Controls, and more.
John Savill's Windows NT/2000/2003 FAQ
Sponsored by the Windows 2000 Magazine Network and
brought to you by John Savill, this site has discussion forums and an extensive
collection of FAQs. It's a great knowledge base for failure analysis and for
creating tests that are aimed at exposing platform specific failures. You can
also add a FAQ if you have one to share.
Winternals Software
Offers advanced system monitoring, recovery, and repair tools.
MSDN Home Page
Microsoft
Developer Network Online main page. It offers resources and information to
Windows developers.
WinDrivers.Com Resource
A
resource for Windows technical support and drivers.
MSDN Discussion Groups
Following
are a few groups that host discussions focused on driver development and
testing.
microsoft.public.ddk
microsoft.public.ddk.win2000.input
microsoft.public.ddk.win2000.debugging
microsoft.public.development.device.drivers
DDK - Windows Driver Development Kit
Offers information on the Microsoft Windows Driver Development Kit (DDK).
Windows 2000 Home Page
Microsoft Site for Windows 2000 Information and
Resources.
Freeware Sysinternals-Mark Russinovich and Brice
Cogswell
This Web site offers several Windows utilities, information and source code
related to Windows 9x and Windows NT/2K, internals that help manage, test and
debug applications in Windows environments.
WDMCHECK
Utility
WDMCHECK can be used to discover
whether your driver calls to kernel-mode functions are supported in the DDK, but
aren't actually available in Windows 98/Me.
Microsoft Windows Logo Program and Driver Signing
Offers information about Microsoft WHQL, including test
specifications and kits for hardware Logo testing.
The
PC Technology Guide
A wealth of resource on
PC technology overview.
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