PS - thought Windows is all-powerful when it comes to supporting drivers. Doesn't it download drivers from the servers for all hardware? This is just a curiosity I guess. Or every vendor actually submits their drivers first???
Quite to the contrary. OSX is fantastic at handling drivers. Windows in the past, however, has been utterly
abysmal, the worst ever being Windows Vista -- nothing, and I mean nothing, worked -- printers failed, soundcards failed, and that's basic generic stuff, I even had a mouse fail. If you had anything more complicated than that, it was
bad. It's gotten way better with Win10. Though I still think two major problems with Windows are the Registry, and *.dll file reliance. Mess up one of those *.dll files (which can be done by any number of programs or installs writing over a *.dll that a lot of programs use), and it can crescendo throughout Windows, including the drivers.
Hmmm, now I am curious. How does drivers work on windows in general?
Well, have fun reading the
driver callback function.
Bottom line, you're going to need Bootcamp drivers to drive your Macbook Pro hardware. And Windows simply will not make the proper calls for Apple hardware. And to have Bootcamp download and install them, you're going to need a functioning network card on your newly-Windowized Macbook Pro -- and one tricky part may be getting the proper driver to drive that network card, or "board" in Mac parlance. You can do more investigating
here.
