Linked by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 23:05 UTC
You'd think this headline was a joke, but sadly, it's not. It's the real headline of an article posted on SeattlePI.com in the blogs section. The core of the story is that a man couldn't get his printer to work with Windows Vista, and ultimately, with the help of a Microsoft test manager, solved the problem warranting a follow-up article. The comedy here, of course, is in reading what went wrong and wrapping your brain around why engineers didn't forsee such a thing happening. 
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I ran into the same thing with a Xerox printer/scanner/copier/fax at work. Since the printer is shared through our small business server, when I tried to connect to it Vista asked me if I wanted to install a driver. The driver that was installed was an XP driver and didn't work. Vista never complained though. The drivers just died with an out of memory error once you tried to print something. Once Xerox (finally) posted updated drivers that were compatible with Vista, those wouldn't work either because Vista was still using the non-functional XP drivers.
Removing files and registry keys helped but took a while. Big pain in the ass. And we had 4 Vista PC's that had tried to connect to that same printer.
*sigh*
I hate computers.