VIA Hardware has posted their exploration into Windows XP VIA compatiblity. As many know, Windows 2000 has given VIA users a huge amount of headaches in the past year. Will XP improve on Win2K in terms of compatibilty and the rediculous driver situation?

Also, hardware detection has become much more intelligent, with the majority of driver installation happening in the background. Users who perform a motherboard swap will be simply amazed, as XP boots up and installs the proper drivers without any intervention, or any real interference with the user´s computing. The only indication that major driver installation is being performed is a good deal of hard disk activity, and occasional notifications on the taskbar.

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