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From: John Corliss on 11 Jun 2010 04:24
za kAT wrote:
> John Corliss wrote:
>>
>> I learned long ago not to install hardware updates from MS's Windows
>> Update site. Almost every time that I have, I've experienced loss of
>> functionality with the component in question and have had to go back to
>> the previous version of the driver.
>
> Notorious. I don't know why they still offer them.

My theory is that they have an arrangement with various hardware
manufacturers and that the intent is to impose a sort of artificial
planned obsolescence. Kind of like the way that my ancient Hewlett
Packard 855C printer has slowed *waaaaaay* down because it no longer has
internal fonts thanks to the XP driver. As a result, it has to print
everything graphically. They tried the same thing in ME, actually
producing a driver that made the output look like something from and
prehistoric dot-matrix printer. It only took me a little while to figure
out that the Windows 95 driver for the printer could easily be
installed, restoring full original functionality for the printer.

The computer industry is rife with corruption and greed, but we all know
that.

--
John Corliss BS206. Because of all the Googlespam, I block all posts
sent through Google Groups. I also block as many posts from anonymous
remailers (like x-privat.org for eg.) as possible due to forgeries
posted through them.

No ad, CD, commercial, cripple, demo, nag, share, spy, time-limited,
trial or web wares OR warez for me, please. Adobe Flash sucks, DivX rules.
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