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Old July 9th 18, 12:41 PM posted to alt.windows7.general
Mayayana
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Default Buying Windows 7 - related question


"Paul" wrote

| It's my feeling, that Microsoft has used their licensing
| leverage, to stop driver support for Win7.
|

That may be, but hardware companies can vary a lot.
A few years ago I wanted drivers for an MSI board. MSI
said they no longer supported my system. I then went to
Via, the chipset maker. They had a single download that
supported all then-current systems. MSI was either
incompetent or sleazy. I doubt it was due to any outside
influence.

Dell does do extensive repackaging of drivers and may
sometimes have hardware specific to their product. It
might not be possible to be certain of getting drivers that
will work. That's why I was saying above that it's a
good idea to avoid Dell altogether.



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