When creating a desktop operating system install, we’ll often have a “computer specific” section, where we’ll install particular software for particular PCs. For example, we would install fingerprint scanning software on those Lenovo laptops which had a fingerprint scanner built in.
But what if we’d detected a PC we don’t know about?
Throw up an error:
Like all good idiot proofing, we were countering the actions of idiots. The two reasons which drove that were:
- The computer manufacturer, HP in this case, AKA the Integration Centre, would introduce a a new model without telling us SOE developers.
The first we’d hear about it, was when an end user would ring up and say “my PC doesn’t play sound …” - Our Desktop Support staff, WHO SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER, would install the desktop operating system image on a PC which wasn’t supported.
And then complain to everyone but us, that the SOE build was broken.