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[Calvin Powers <calvin AT cspowers.com>]

At 11:24 AM 9/10/2002 -0400, you wrote:
> On Wednesday 21 August 2002 12:31, Edward Wesolowski wrote:
> > Has anyone had experience running apps on XP that were written for earlier
> > versions of Windows? I've got a couple of touchscreen apps that are pretty
> > buggy under the current XP and would like to figure a way to run these.
> > ...suggestions?
> > Thanks
> > Ed Wesolowski
>
> Hi Ed,
>
> Maybe the problem lies in the touchscreen drivers. WindowsXP drivers are very
> different from previous versions of Windows products. Try to update your
> drivers and see what happens.
>
> But... do you really need to uupgrade those computers to WindowsXP? Aside 
> from
> being costly in $$$, there's no guarantee that your older applications will
> work with WinXP, due to how different WinXP is from Win95/98/Me

Nor is there any guarantee that your printer will work, as my Father found 
out the hard way. He has a Canon BJC-5000. Canon, in their infinite wisdom, 
decided to not produce a driver for this model and none of the other 
windows platforms drivers will work with it. So my Dad now has a very 
expensive paperweight sitting on his desk.

One can argue that Canon shoud have produced a driver for this printer. But 
it's also amazing the "Windows" changes so much from one release to the 
next that the driver architectures have to change and the drivers have to 
be rewritten each time.




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