[olug] Microsoft is out of control!

[Mike Peterson]

I use a parallel port scanner and it works fine with Windows XP Pro.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Brian Wiese" <bwiese at cotse.com>
To: "Omaha Linux User Group" <olug at olug.org>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 8:44 AM
Subject: Re: [olug] Microsoft is out of control!


> On Thu, 6 May 2004 22:52:43 -0500
> Sean Kelly <smkelly at zombie.org> wrote:
>
>
> |Microsoft can't really do what many opensource things do and just say "We
> |no longer support doing X using the Y API." They would drive developers
> |away quick.
>
> they did actually do just that for a few hardware pieces when WinXP was
> released.  one reason I know, is winxp doesn't support any parallel-port
> scanners.
>
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