Linked by Adam S on Wed 18th Jun 2008 23:05 UTC
Humor 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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RE[4]: 1996
by Flatland_Spider on Thu 19th Jun 2008 14:02 UTC in reply to "RE[3]: 1996"
Flatland_Spider
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However isn't the point of all the bloat in windows is that it bends over backwards for compatibility.


That only extends to software. A fifteen year old program can be run, but a fifteen year old driver can't be used.

I never had this problem moving users from win9x to Win2k/XP. The win9x drivers would be stopped from installing on a win2k system.


The Win9x drivers were totally differently then Win2k or XP drivers. NT drivers could be installed on Win2k, since Win2k was NT 5.0, and those could produce spectacular failures.

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