Re:Microsoft criticized for changing the pop-up box encourag...
by ryanlol on Wednesday May 25, 2016 @07:06AM
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Do the OEMs suddenly not have a responsibility to keep their drivers working on the OS they picked?
>it should check that drivers are available for the hardware before trying to go through with the upgrade
From what I've gathered the issue tends to be with drivers not working, rather than not existing. This is again entirely the OEMs fault, there isn't any feasible way for MSFT to verify that the drivers aren't broken.
These OEMs knew very well that microsoft was going to do this but still neglected to fix their drivers.
>it should check that drivers are available for the hardware before trying to go through with the upgrade
From what I've gathered the issue tends to be with drivers not working, rather than not existing. This is again entirely the OEMs fault, there isn't any feasible way for MSFT to verify that the drivers aren't broken.
These OEMs knew very well that microsoft was going to do this but still neglected to fix their drivers.