Windows 2000 Professional

Chapter 3. Configuring Hardware

Microsoft Windows 98 gives users ample choices of hardware. Two reasons are the market's expectations and its size. The market, of course, contains consumers who use computers not for business, but at home. They play games, they use the Internet, and they entertain their children. They expect the operating system to support a plethora of devices, and Microsoft delivers. Because the market is so large, independent hardware vendors tend to focus first on Windows 98 device drivers and frequently neglect other business-oriented operating systems. And Microsoft made device drivers easy to develop for Windows 98 versus its other operating systems, providing further impetus for independent hardware vendors (IHVs) to ...