Canon drivers on MS Vista/Longhorn

**optimizer** · September 17th, 2005, 01:40 AM

I had some B grade brand printers and scanners for the 98 to XP migration.
Brother and co failed to show up with drivers. They may still not have them...

I switched it all out to more A grade companies with the thinking that they would have drivers ready to go for all their products produced in the last 10 years or so, to keep their business customers happy etc...

When I was switching, I was going to get HP, but they seem to have slid a bit, and I got Canon, but now I have their items, I have this eerie feeling that they may work like the bottom feeders and hose the people that bought their product and not release new drivers for 6 months to a year after Vista release.

With MS Vista on the horizon, does anyone have any past experience (win 98 to 2000 or XP etc) with the Canon printer, scanner, camera driver upgrades - do they produce them for OS release, or do they give the customer the shaft and make them wait, trying to get a sale in the process?

Thanks

**NooNoo** · September 17th, 2005, 05:17 AM

Moved to Vista forum.

Vista is in Beta 1 - we have not even got to a release candidate yet and you are accusing all and sundry of shafting people on drivers?

Have you any idea in the work involved in creating a driver for an OS? You are not going to see Vista drivers for peripherals until market release for most companies unless MS have already written in the ability for the standard engines.

**optimizer** · September 17th, 2005, 03:24 PM

No No No....

It was from personal experience of having had peripherals long after OS releases unable to work because manufacturers didn't/dont/havent written them for their recent (eg 2 year old products) ones, but just for their new ones.

I simply haven't had many Canon products, but I know some people will have, and will have had an experience (obviously not you NooNoo, or you would have written it, but thx for response(s) anyway). So I'm just looking for Canon Ownees from Win 98 and how long they had to wait for drivers for Win 2000 or XP. Looking for some experience to base my plans for Win Vista (or leave Win for Linux)...
Thanks