USB 3.0 support in Windows 7?

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supported? or not?

[H]ardOCP did a preview of USB 3.0 on Windows 7, and from the performance figures they posted you can only assume that it is supported, otherwise how can they achieve higher than USB 2.0 performance right?

Doing a search on both Microsoft.com and google I can't find a difinitive answer about USB 3.0 support in Windows 7, the [H] article does not mention any kind of patch to add support yet people I know are asserting that USB 3.0 will not be supported until sp1, but they are citing an article that is from November 2008, what am I missing here?
 
I have a NEC Electronics USB 3 Host Controller/Root Hub, both showing up as installed and functioning correctly in device manager, so im guessing support is there.........i just dont have any devices to test it on.
 
I installed the WD PCI-E usb 3.0 card in my friends PC and it works, just needed the driver from WD.
I have the 1TB USB 3.0 drive here at my house and will do some speed test when I bring it back.
 
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