I'm not sure people realize the maganitude of having to re-write ALL drivers for a new operating system. You cannot use existing drivers with Vista. Also, isn't the operating system still 6+ months away?
I'm operating a pre-release version of Vista, on a common Dell computer that is only a couple of months old, that happens to use an ordinary Intel graphics chip which is present in most of computers we have at our company. There's no video driver available yet, so I'm stuck with the generic driver. I had to obtain a pre-release verison of Symantec Anti-Virus. And I'm still on the hunt for some printer drivers, although the included drivers seem workable.
I wonder, as far as DVD or HD DVD/Blu-Ray movie play back, if there's additional licensing fees involved. We already know Blu-Ray PC drives (recorders) do not currently allow you to playback movies on any current operating system. And I've yet to see an HD DVD recorder for a PC. Maybe the absence of drivers/playback capability is because there's no PC drives yet capable of playing HD movies.
I imagine the drivers or player software will be included with the drive and not necessarily the operating system anyway.
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I'm not sure people realize the maganitude of having to re-write ALL drivers for a new operating system. You cannot use existing drivers with Vista. Also, isn't the operating system still 6+ months away?
I'm operating a pre-release version of Vista, on a common Dell computer that is only a couple of months old, that happens to use an ordinary Intel graphics chip which is present in most of computers we have at our company. There's no video driver available yet, so I'm stuck with the generic driver. I had to obtain a pre-release verison of Symantec Anti-Virus. And I'm still on the hunt for some printer drivers, although the included drivers seem workable.
I wonder, as far as DVD or HD DVD/Blu-Ray movie play back, if there's additional licensing fees involved. We already know Blu-Ray PC drives (recorders) do not currently allow you to playback movies on any current operating system. And I've yet to see an HD DVD recorder for a PC. Maybe the absence of drivers/playback capability is because there's no PC drives yet capable of playing HD movies.
I imagine the drivers or player software will be included with the drive and not necessarily the operating system anyway.