Do people outside of MS actually use WinDbg?

ShroudedNight · on April 12, 2016

We [IBM JIT for J9 team] use WinDBG as part of our tools to debug problems that show up on Windows.

dman · on April 12, 2016

I use it often via gflags to start on process startup, because WinDbg startup is a lot faster than letting the process crash, windows showing the error dialog, and then clicking in the visual studio version selector to select Visual Studio.

mpeg · on April 12, 2016

Mostly Microsoft or Windows device driver developers, but also people who want to reverse engineer device drivers.

There's many DRM / anti-hacking tools that rely on windows drivers to hook Windows kernel APIs at the lowest level they can.

snarez · on April 12, 2016

Yeah security people use WinDbg a lot.

dr_zoidberg · on April 12, 2016

A few friends of mine that do memory forensics made extensive use of WinDBG to debug memory translation code. In the memory forensics developer community (yeah, very specific) WinDBG is one of the most reliable tools to use.