Windows has made some effort to split components into user space from Vista onwards, they introduced the User Mode Driver Framework allowing for some drivers to

Windows has made some effort to split components into user space from Vista onwards, they introduced the User Mode Driver Framework allowing for some drivers to be written in user space [1], it doesn't give access to all of the functionality in the Kernel Mode Driver Framework (KMDF) though [2]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User-Mode_Driver_Framework [2] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wdf/comparing-umdf-2-0-functionality-to-kmdf https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/drivers/wd...