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Vista Not Playing Well With IPv6

Posted by kdawson on from the pioneers-with-arrows dept.

netbuzz writes in to note that some early adopters of Microsoft Vista are reporting problems with Vista's implementation of IPv6. An example:"'We are seeing a number of applications that are IP-based that do not like the addressing scheme of IPv6,' says one user. 'We will send a print job to an IP-based printer, and the print job becomes corrupted. We're seeing this with Window's Vista machines. When IPv6 is installed, this happens without fail. As soon as we remove IPv6, all of our printer functions return to normal.'"

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  1. Oh My God by alta · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I'm usually all for people doing anything it takes to make a buck, as long as it's legal. But this should not be legal. This is extortion and is bad for the general public. If this works, it's going to take longer for fixes to appear because of legal issues, and the vendor will have to decide if it's even worth it. I'm floored.

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