The real-but-unofficial name is Another Fucking Driver. I see a lot of comments online of people saying they used to work at Microsoft or heard from a friend that works there explaining how it got this name, but I 100% remember watching a Microsoft Build conference (maybe ~10 years ago?) where the person who wrote it said on stage that he really did call it that, but they had to name it Auxiliary Function Driver for obvious reasons.
Sadly I can't find that talk anywhere on the internet, but it definitely happened.
fun fact (or not so fun): incidentally, AFD (or more precisely written AfD) is also the name of a radical far-right party in Germany. The party has progressively shifted to the fringe and is now classified as "confirmed right-wing extremist" by the German Federal Office for the Protection of the Constitution (Verfassungsschutz), Germany's main domestic intelligence agency. Ref:
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[ 2.4 ms ] story [ 15.6 ms ] threadThe real-but-unofficial name is Another Fucking Driver. I see a lot of comments online of people saying they used to work at Microsoft or heard from a friend that works there explaining how it got this name, but I 100% remember watching a Microsoft Build conference (maybe ~10 years ago?) where the person who wrote it said on stage that he really did call it that, but they had to name it Auxiliary Function Driver for obvious reasons.
Sadly I can't find that talk anywhere on the internet, but it definitely happened.
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alternative_for_Germany
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Office_for_the_Protect...
It's interesting to see which prominent figures of tech and politics in the USA have publicly associated with the AfD.