Michael Wallent, General Manager for Windows Client, was interviewed by the Windows Vista Blog about the user experience in Vista. “We sat down with Michael to learn more about what’s changed for the better from a quality perspective. In the video below, Michael speaks in particular to changes made in building in hardware driver support and adds that updates will continue to be made available via download via Windows Update. This advance in driver distribution avoids the ‘step-function’ improvement that users had experienced in the past; now, via network-available updates, the experience of using Windows Vista continually improves over time.”
I’d like to be part of the whole Vista Experience, but it’s still not on MSDN yet.
“In the video below, Michael speaks in particular to changes made in building in hardware driver support and adds that updates will continue to be made available via download via Windows Update. This advance in driver distribution avoids the “step-function” improvement that users had experienced in the past; now, via network-available updates, the experience of using Windows Vista continually improves over time.”
Gotta love marketing guys. All this confuse crap just to say “windows update will now update drivers”.
As far as I remember, windows update already does update drivers. Have been using it for ages. Except they didn’t put each (WHQL’d) one but just updates for drivers which they ship with install CD.
What they are saying is there will be support for many more hardware devices on WU as well as more frequent driver updates (WU is usually a few versions behind).
…eventually finds it’s way to OSNews.
How about sticking to articles that cover *real* OS innovations…