Editing Windows Driver Model (section)

{{Short description|Device driver framework}}
{{Distinguish|text=the [[Windows Display Driver Model]] (WDDM), a display driver architecture introduced with [[Windows Vista]]}}
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In [[computing]], the '''Windows Driver Model'''  ('''WDM'''){{snd}} also known at one point as the '''Win32 Driver Model'''{{snd}} is a framework for [[device driver]]s that was introduced with [[Windows 98]] and [[Windows 2000]] to replace [[VxD]], which was used on older versions of Windows such as [[Windows 95]] and [[Windows 3.1x|Windows 3.1]], as well as the [[Windows NT Driver Model]].