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If what I have been reading on the net is correct, Vista is only going to let certain peripherals work, isn't that going to make it a Mac?

12 posted on 02/02/2007 11:11:43 AM PST by razorback-bert (Posted by Time's Man of the Year)

To: razorback-bert

What peripherals don't work on a Mac? Its one of the beauties of the MacOS that you just plug and go. Almost never need to download drivers.

14 posted on 02/02/2007 11:13:22 AM PST by big'ol_freeper (It looks like one of those days when one nuke is just not enough-- Lt. Col. Mitchell, SG-1)

To: razorback-bert

If what I have been reading on the net is correct, Vista is only going to let certain peripherals work, isn't that going to make it a Mac?

From my understanding, the issue stems from an architectural change in the way Winders deals with device drivers. They've modularized them in the kernel now, and also have a DRM scheme for them. So out of the gate, there will be limited support a lot of devices than in the past, until manufacturers rewrite for the new scheme.

So in other words, No W2K/XP drivers will work for Vista.

Not my problem since I saw all this B$ coming long ago and made the switch to Linux. Haven't missed Winders at all.

152 posted on 02/02/2007 2:46:52 PM PST by AFreeBird (This space for rent. Inquire within)

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