(My apologies to those who may be seeing this twice.  I posted to the 
developer's list a couple of days ago, but it seems to have a pretty small 
circulation.)

Hello all:

I hate to even bring up this subject in this group, but I'm pretty frustrated 
- and I'm also complaining about Microsoft, which makes it slightly relevant. 
  Here's the story- I happen to be working on an embedded project which 
requires a PC-based configuration app (Windows, unfortunately.)  I have 
Visual C++ which I know pretty well, but also need to support USB.  From my 
research I understand that I need the Windows DDK to compile the USB code, 
even though I'm using a standard HID class interface and I really only need a 
couple of header files.  I spent a couple of hours googling on this, and 
there are a lot of articles that say that the Windows 98 DDK is free from MS. 
 Wrong!  MS doesn't officially support it anymore and it's now available only 
to MSDN subscribers.  This really burns me up.  I don't do Windows all that 
much any more (being primarily an embedded and Linux guy now) so I don't want 
to waste $199 on an MSDN subscription.  But it really does not seem to be 
available for free (or for a reasonable price, ie under $50) anywhere.  I did 
find a site in Korea which claimed to have it, and I tried to download it 
several times, but the download would always die after about a megabyte.  
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to be a mooch again.  Would anybody happen 
to have an old Windows DDK CD they're not using any more they'd be willing to 
sell me?  Or is there some secret way a person can still download these magic 
DDK files?  Thanks and I hope everyone had a very happy Turkey Day!


Vaughn Treude
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