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["Bill Geschwind" <geschwin AT email.unc.edu>]

It's not so much that the driver architecture has to change, but whether
the device manufacturers decide to write drivers according to WDM
(Windows Driver Model), which, to be certified as WDM compliant, must
work under win9x as well as under win2k - and presumably winXP. Of
course it is not in the device manufacturer's best interest to supply
drivers for the latest Windows version for all of their legacy devices,
since if no drivers for the latest Windows version are available, then
it forces the consumer to purchase a new device. Nice evil revenue
stream, if you ask me. 

My $0.02 worth...

- Bill

-----Original Message-----
From: internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org
[mailto:internetworkers-admin AT lists.ibiblio.org] On Behalf Of Calvin
Powers
Sent: Tuesday, September 10, 2002 10:38 AM
To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] running WIN x apps on XP

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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