The Notebook Review forums were hosted by TechTarget, who shut down them down on January 31, 2022. This static read-only archive was pulled by NBR forum users between January 20 and January 31, 2022, in an effort to make sure that the valuable technical information that had been posted on the forums is preserved. For current discussions, many NBR forum users moved over to NotebookTalk.net after the shutdown.
Problems? See this thread at archive.org.

    Future Hardware Releases and XP?

    Discussion in 'Windows OS and Software' started by smsjefsms, Jul 31, 2007.

  1. smsjefsms

    smsjefsms Notebook Guru

    Reputations:
    0
    Messages:
    66
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    15
    As future hardware is released from Santa Rosa on forward (that takes advantage of some of the Vista features), will the drivers be available to use this newer hardware with Windows XP?
     
    smsjefsms, Jul 31, 2007
    #1
  2. knightingmagic

    knightingmagic Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    144
    Messages:
    1,194
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    You'll have to dig around for XP drivers since Vista is being pushed everywhere.
     
    knightingmagic, Jul 31, 2007
    #2
  3. CodeMonkeyX

    CodeMonkeyX Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    118
    Messages:
    1,168
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    Microsoft is trying hard to screw their customers. They will pressure the hardware companies to just make Vista drivers when possible.
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jul 31, 2007
    #3
  4. gerryf19

    gerryf19 I am the walrus

    Reputations:
    2,275
    Messages:
    3,990
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    105
    historically speaking, hardware companies have continued to put out driver updates for old OS for about 3-5 years
     
    gerryf19, Jul 31, 2007
    #4
  5. CodeMonkeyX

    CodeMonkeyX Notebook Deity

    Reputations:
    118
    Messages:
    1,168
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    That is true, but MS has not pushed this hard before. The Windows Games thing is disturbing me already. That DX10 is Vista only, and MS is trying hard to get game publishers to only use DX10.

    Obvious some of the better companies will keep releasing drivers. For example, I would be suprised if NVidia or ATI suddenly stopped providing XP drivers for their new cards. But who knows.

    I think you will be ok for a year or so, but I am just saying MS is pushing to get XP deprecated. So if they succeed you may loose support faster than in the past.
     
    CodeMonkeyX, Jul 31, 2007
    #5
  6. wave

    wave Notebook Virtuoso

    Reputations:
    813
    Messages:
    2,563
    Likes Received:
    0
    Trophy Points:
    55
    There might not be support for the minor devices such as card readers, webcams, or bluetooth. The main devices like graphics card, wifi, hard disk and so on will have support for a few more years.
     
    wave, Jul 31, 2007
    #6