{"id":1673,"date":"2008-08-21T19:48:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"\/blogs\/news\/archive\/2008\/08\/21\/windows-7-client-drivers-now-available.aspx"},"modified":"2008-08-21T19:48:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-21T19:48:19","slug":"windows-7-client-drivers-now-available-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/?p=1673","title":{"rendered":"\u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d drivers now available"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A day after <a href=\"http:\/\/yannis.spaces.live.com\/blog\/cns%21DB18F7F778686DA1%218209.entry\">someone noticed a \u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d<\/a> category popping up on <a href=\"http:\/\/technet.microsoft.com\/en-us\/wsus\/default.aspx\">Windows Server Update Services<\/a>, another curious <a href=\"http:\/\/www.neowin.net\/forum\/index.php?showtopic=659672&#038;st=0&#038;p=589675120&#038;#entry589675120\">enthusiast on the Neowin forums<\/a> has also noticed a sudden prevalence of \u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d drivers on Microsoft\u2019s Update Catalog &#8211; the online library of drivers which Windows uses to automatically install. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"windows7update\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/08\/windows7update.jpg\"> <\/p>\n<p>A simple <a href=\"http:\/\/catalog.update.microsoft.com\/v7\/site\/Search.aspx?q=%22Windows+7+Client%22\">search for \u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d<\/a> reveals more than 1000 drivers already available. These drivers range from the big brands from Nvidia, ATI, Intel and Broadcom to even miscellaneous display drivers. Whilst it is true all <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20080529\/windows-7-beta-compulsory-windows-logo-program\/\">drivers approved after June 1<\/a> should have been tested on Windows 7, most of these drivers date back to early 2007 suggesting most drivers have just been carried over from the latest WHQL release. <\/p>\n<p>With updates in one hand and drivers in the other, can you say beta test? <\/p>\n<p>Article &#8211; istartedsomething.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A day after someone noticed a \u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d category popping up on Windows Server Update Services, another curious enthusiast on the Neowin forums has also noticed a sudden prevalence of \u201cWindows 7 Client\u201d drivers on Microsoft\u2019s Update Catalog &#8211; the online library of drivers which Windows uses to automatically install. A simple search for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[338],"class_list":["post-1673","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1673"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1673\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1673"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1673"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/plexuk.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1673"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}