2006-12-08 22:18:16 · 5 answers · asked by xuanbach l 1 in Computers & Internet ➔ Hardware ➔ Other - Hardware
In order for your operating system to use your hardware it has to know what does it do and how does it do it. Your driver for your hardware just tells the operating systems how to interact with the hardware.
Note: some hardware have pre-installed drivers on Windows XP and Vista.
2006-12-08 22:24:08 · answer #1 · answered by aviationalyours 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
because the hardware doesnt know what it is doing. It needs the software to tell it what to do. The hardware is only capable of trying to do the job that it is told.
Hardware is like an employee while software is an employer
2006-12-09 06:21:55 · answer #2 · answered by whatukno 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think a better analogy is that hardware is like an african or south american tribe that speaks it's own language. And the operating system is like the major language spoken by millions. The operating system (english speaking researcher) doesn't know how to communicate with the hardware (small tribe with their own language) until you provide a driver (interpreter who can speak both languages).
A totally different hardware design by one company may make it run better than a hardware design by another company (which is why you can't just make one hardware design standard).
2006-12-09 06:53:10 · answer #3 · answered by lwcomputing 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Because HARDWARE is like a student an SOFTWARE is like the teacher so it need a guidens to do some work if it do of it's own it wiil commite some mistakes.Software tells Hardware to do something what we tell ot the software.THANKYOU
2006-12-09 06:41:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
So they can commuicate... it like a hand shake!
2006-12-09 06:22:08 · answer #5 · answered by ? 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋