Drivers for usb modem exist?

Question

drivers for USB módems exist in win 8 ?

 

Answer 1

This is an open-ended question. The answer depends on whether the hardware manufacturer of the hardware released a driver for Windows 8. Most likely not, the developer preview is the first version they get which means they can only spend a few days at most on driver development, if they started at all.

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Answer 2

On Sat, 17 Sep 2011 19:20:32 +0000, Sheng Jiang ?? [MVP] wrote:

This is an open-ended question. The answer depends on whether the hardware?manufacturer?of the hardware released a driver for Windows 8. Most?likely?not, the developer preview is the first version they get which means they can only spend a few days at most on driver development, if they started at all.

It doesn't have to be a Windows 8 driver. The vast majority of Windows 7
drivers should continue to work on Windows 8.

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Answer 3

Windows 7 is 2 years old. Many device have only Vista or even XP drivers, like the one I am using right now.

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Answer 4

On Sun, 18 Sep 2011 00:07:04 +0000, Sheng Jiang ?? [MVP] wrote:

Windows 7 is 2 years old. Many device have only Vista or even XP drivers, like the one I am using right now.

So? This still doesn't mean that there won't be Windows 7 drivers for the
device, and your comment that the OP will need to wait for Windows 8
drivers is still not necessarily true.

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Answer 5

If Microsoft's compatibility layer or generic driver works then the user won't have this question.

My machine never got Vista drivers, let alone 7 or 8. 

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