Running windows on macbook pro

I have what I think is a strange question.
My wife has been wanting to run Windows on my MBP (early 2013, 512 GB SSD) so she could have a light weight laptop and I could get a new MBP, I decided to install Windows 8 on my MBP. Since the SSD is relatively small for all the stuff on her current Windows machine I decided to install Windows natively in its own partition. Not using Boot Camp, but just a single Windows partition on the SSD.
The installation went smoothly enough and I can boot Windows on the machine, but I can not get to the internet to update any drivers. First, Windows does not see any wifi hardware and, second, when I plug an Ethernet connector into my Firewire adapter, Windows does not recognize that there is any connection there either. That is, no matter what I do I cannot seem to get to the internet to get whatever drivers Windows needs.
I can, of course, reinstall OS X, add a Boot Camp partition and install Windows that way but it should be possible (I think) to run Windows natively on a MBP. Can anyone give me a hint as to what might be wrong (I assume I am missing the appropriate drivers, but that may be incorrect) and where to go to get these issues fixed? Has anyone out there done this? Have any of you had success?
Any help would be appreciated. Thanks in advance.

delphijunkie wrote:
Thanks for your input. I use VMWare on both Windows and Mac for development, and don't find performance to be a problem, provided the Host OS has plenty of RAM, and you don't allocate too much RAM to the guest OS.
The reason I favour using Boot Camp as a VM is so I do have the option to run Windows natively, should that be required.
I use Windows 7 installed in a Boot Camp partition and use that partition from Fusion. It works great and I have the option of accessing from Fusion or booting directly into Windows.

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leroydouglas wrote:
gcng wrote:
hi there
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