Dell Releases Windows 7 Drivers
Dell (Dell) on Friday released a set of Windows 7 drivers for its commercial desktop and laptop products, company officials said. The drivers can be downloaded from Dell's customer support site free of charge.
"The Windows 7 team at Dell is excited about the progress we have made to get the OS ready for commercial customers and is looking forward to launch in just a couple of short months," said Dell officials, in a blog post.
"We have received many requests from our business customers that we post our Windows 7 drivers so they can begin testing and qualifying the new OS within their environments," the officials said. Dell will release additional Windows 7 drivers in the coming weeks as they become available. "We will post additional drivers once they pass rigorous testing and certification standards," the officials said.
Driver support from third-party vendors is critical to Windows 7's success. Lack of driver availability hobbled Windows Vista's January, 2007 launch—a fact that helped doom the OS in the enterprise market.
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