Linked by Thom Holwerda on Thu 30th Apr 2009 16:13 UTC, submitted by REM2000
As announced, the Windows 7 release candidate is now available for TechNet and MSDN subscribers. "The RC milestone is a result of feedback from millions of customers and partners around the world. It indicates the operating system is entering the final phases of development and is ready for partners to develop new applications, device drivers and services, and ready for IT pros to evaluate Windows 7 and examine how it will operate in their environment." The public release will be May 5.
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Member since:2008-07-15
some hardware doesn't have drivers for vista and will not have for win7
And some hardware had drivers for win9x and didn't for nt/2k/xp. Some hardware worked in Mac OS X Tiger and doesn't work properly in Leopard. Some devices worked in Linux kernel 2.4.xx but don't work as well in 2.6.xx. That's just the occasional price you pay when you upgrade, most hardware engineers aren't going to write new drivers for discontinued products, and even if they wanted to, they may be forbidden from doing so by their management. Now, if the hardware in question hasn't been discontinued... well, someone in charge of that product isn't thinking properly. Common sense is often lacking in the world...
Member since:2005-07-06
And some hardware had drivers for win9x and didn't for nt/2k/xp. Some hardware worked in Mac OS X Tiger and doesn't work properly in Leopard. Some devices worked in Linux kernel 2.4.xx but don't work as well in 2.6.xx. That's just the occasional price you pay when you upgrade, most hardware engineers aren't going to write new drivers for discontinued products, and even if they wanted to, they may be forbidden from doing so by their management. Now, if the hardware in question hasn't been discontinued... well, someone in charge of that product isn't thinking properly. Common sense is often lacking in the world...
In fairness though - some companies come to the end of the product life for their products, they see no business case to support them with the new operating system so instead provide Microsoft with the drivers. Its not exactly great but it is a good compromise.
Some businesses are better than others; some provide support for products in the long term - others almost drop support immediately; case in point would be Creative and their demand that users pay for a driver so that they can get full hardware support in Windows Vista. With companies like that I wonder why Microsoft would even bother allowing these organisations to be allowed to affix the Windows compatibility logo to their packaging.
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some hardware doesn't have drivers for vista and will not have for win7