[vertex-four]

If a keyboard needs drivers other than USB-HID, someone's doing something wrong.

[sandworm101]

I thought that too, until i bought a cheap netbook that came with windows (7? Student edition? I cannot remember). I plugged in a mouse and windows said it needed to connect to the internet to download the driver for my MS optical mouse. I practically fell out of my chair laughing.

[dagw]

The "driver" is for adding a gui for doing things like customizing buttons and sensitivity and stuff, not to make the basic mouse work.

[sandworm101]

Except the mouse wouldnt work. Either the os couldnt use it, or wasnt letting me. Either way, it was funny seeing one ms product not recognize another.

[mcpherrinm]

Many laptops use an SPI touchpad device, so they don't need to go through the relatively expensive and complex USB stack.