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To: Paleo Conservative
It's pretty ridiculous that a $20K scanner would have to be abandoned due to lack of Windows 7 drivers.

Agreed. You and I both know that someone could write the drivers for that, but the question is - will they be allowed to? Could such a thing be done out in the wild?

It's a problem that I'm thankful I don't have, but certainly there are millions of people around the world being affected by this OS upgrade. Seems that someone could do what's necessary to fix it.

63 posted on 04/03/2012 9:31:30 AM PDT by Windflier (To anger a conservative, tell him a lie. To anger a liberal, tell him the truth.)
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To: Windflier
Agreed. You and I both know that someone could write the drivers for that, but the question is - will they be allowed to? Could such a thing be done out in the wild?

I think the manufacturer figures there's no money in maintaining the drivers for the quirks in their less recent models. I wouldn't mind paying for driver upgrades to new operating systems, but apparently that isn't their business model.

65 posted on 04/03/2012 10:02:28 AM PDT by Paleo Conservative
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