When Vista launched, a major difficulty for users was the lack of availability of drivers. (Actually, in fact, there are lots of devices that still don’t have drivers and may never will, but that’s another story.) Microsoft appears to be making a concerted effort with Windows 7 this time to avoid this stituation. For instance, the company is trying to keep the driver model the same as Vista’s in order to avoid stirring up the driver update problem again.
However, the fundamental challenge of...
