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You can't say WDDM wasn't a step forward... Being able to crash your video drivers and reboot them without crashing and rebooting your whole machines made Windows a lot more stable.

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Peak doesn't mean that it's a monotonic decline without any steps forward.

One of the innovations in NT 4.0 was adding the ability for video drivers to crash the kernel. They went full circle.

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