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overgryphon | 9 years ago

Device drivers run in kernel mode and can bugcheck the machine. Microsoft can certainly provide tooling and help device driver writers write reliable drivers, but the device is still responsible for it's driver.

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Analemma_|9 years ago

My understanding is that Windows supports user-mode drivers and Microsoft strongly encourages not writing kernel-mode drivers unless absolutely necessary. If Fitbit did that anyway though then it's definitely their fault.

planteen|9 years ago

Yeah exactly I've had Linux drivers cause kernel panics a number of times.