On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:18:21PM +0100, Bruce Cran wrote: > On 21/07/2011 18:00, Chad Perrin wrote: > >I suspect those drivers are the drivers that have *survived*. I saw > >hardware suddenly stop working because of driver issues just between > >SP1 and SP2 of XP -- including, in one case, the hard drive that had > >the OS on it. The system would start booting, then unload the driver > >because it was not "compatible", thus losing contact with the very > >hard drive from which it was loading the OS. Maybe I was just lucky, > >though. > > Obviously Microsoft does introduce new driver technologies with new OS > releases: there was a new video architecture in Vista, for example. > However, they do seem rather good at supporting older technologies such > as TDI, and I suspect those drivers that fail aren't very well written.
I have less faith in the correctness of MS Windows than you, evidently. -- Chad Perrin [ original content licensed OWL: http://owl.apotheon.org ]
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