Microsoft making vendors remove drivers




Jim Yanik wrote:

I'm still running W98SE.

anybody have W98SE drivers for a Lexmark X1240??
G-D Microsoft WITHDREW them June of last year,and the box said it had W98SE
support,but inside was a errata *** saying W98/ME support was no
available after June 30,07.

The drivers existed,but MS -MADE- everyone pull them,even the archive
sites.I can understand MS not wanting to create drivers,but to pull ones
already made is underhanded and stingy.

I had the same experience recently with a laptop. Microsoft made
the manufacturer delete all XP drivers so as to force people to
buy Vista. A web search turned up dozens znd dozens of sites that
had linked to the manufacturer's website instead of serving up
local copies. I finally found the XP drivers on the vendor's
European website.

It sure will be nice when they finally come out with a reaonable
Open Source electronics CAD package for Linux/BSD. That's what
keeps me running both systems.

--
Guy Macon
<http://www.guymacon.com/>

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