Microsoft hat wirklich Humor:
To bring up Windows 8 on these new SoCs that did not yet have a graphics driver, and since ARM SoCs do not have the industry-standard VGA subsystem to fall back on for compatibility mode, our graphics team wrote a soft GPU driver that was capable of working directly against the hardware frame buffer. Aside from enabling development, it also enabled us to reimagine other things in Windows using the soft GPU driver when the normal GPU driver isn’t available. For example, when running Windows Setup, or in those rare cases when Windows has a “bluescreen,” we were able to give it a friendlier look and even localize it, so that even bad news can be presented more nicely across all platforms. This is a small example of work which is common to the x86/64 architecture as well.
Man wirft also halbfertige Produkte auf den Markt und wenn das Zeugs abstürzt, dann sieht es wenigstens hübsch aus.