| Platform SDK: Quality of Service |
The Microsoft implementation of Quality of Service enables developers to use generic Windows Sockets 2 calls to create QOS-enabled applications. With the Windows 2000 QOS capabilities, developers do not need to consider how the various operating system components interact to achieve quality of service. The components that constitute QOS implementation are instead abstracted from the QOS application development effort, allowing a single or generic QOS interface—instead of individual interfaces—for each QOS component. This provides a generic interface for the developer, and also provides a mechanism by which new QOS components (perhaps with increased functionality) can be added, without the need to completely rewrite existing QOS applications.