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The difference between WDDM and LDDM
People refer to “LDDM drivers” as the drivers which enable Windows Aero to work on your Vista computer. However some people refer to them as “WDDM drivers”. Just wanted to clarify, that WDDM is now the new acronym for LDDM.
LDDM was the acronym for Longhorn Display Driver Model but seeing as that “Longhorn” was the codename for Windows Vista, they thought it was only appropriate to change the acronym slightly. So now instead of being LDDM, it’s now WDDM which stands for Windows Vista Display Driver Model.
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