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Old 03-29-2008, 03:50 PM
Jane C
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Re: Responsibility for Drivers

No. It is the responsibility of the hardware manufacturer to provide the
drivers.

Which specific drivers are you having difficulty obtaining?

"husky86" <husky86@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:0B05ADBC-3F92-48A0-A871-615EA66A3B0F@microsoft.com...[color=blue]
> If a particular driver for a particular piece of hardware is still not
> available for Windows Vista, who ultimately is responsible for the
> production
> and distribution of that driver? Is it Microsoft or is it the hardware
> manufacturer?
>
> I'm running Windows Vista Ultimate on a desktop system. Well over a year
> after Vista's release, I still have at least three outstanding and major
> driver issues. Each of the manufacturers, e.g. motherboard, network card,
> etc., tell me that Microsoft is responsible for producing/updating the
> drivers.
>
> Is this true?[/color]

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Old 03-29-2008, 03:50 PM