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by proveanegative 4156 days ago
I am surprised to hear that the market for device drivers is shrinking. Is it because hardware is becoming more homogenous?
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A lot of earlier work in the area was due to many companies building their own hardware that ran on internal PC busses. Now most of them have found that USB is responsive enough,so the driver work on internal bus devices is down. In addition, Microsoft has made it increasingly easier to develop drivers and including more of the stuff you previously had to do yourself as part of the Device Driver Kit.