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Technology Stocks : How high will Microsoft fly? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: SunSpot who wrote (45097)	5/23/2000 12:00:00 PM
From: sandeep	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 74651

Actually, you are in a way. If the driver model is upgraded (you must realize that Win9x and NT are completely different OS'es - so driver models are different), the driver needs to be rewritten for supporting the same hardware. So, there is no backward compatibility with hardware because the driver vendor is slow or out of business. If the driver vendor was alive and kicking the drivers would be seamlessly upgraded and no issue there. The program for making sure that drivers stay current costs a lot to Microsoft and to any OS vendor. Open-source software doesn't suffer from that problem because the driver model is relatively static. Plug and play has improved the case for Windows - at least for the desktop and mobile devices. I don't think the driver model is going to undergo any change for the foreseeable future on Windows.