I'm sure they did not pay enough.
Vista supports almost every printer from the Epson Stylus Color series natively, with the exception of my modell the stylus color 580.
But thanks to VirtualBox, I can just start my WinXP Virtual Machine and print through it.
Has anyone ever actually seen that work? I don't mean the bit where it phones home and sends your first born son to Microsoft, but are there really any drivers at the other end?
Yes, indeed, it never worked in XP, but in Vista it worked for me just the way it is supposed to do.
It downloaded the missing driver, everything fine. Vista Update even informed me that there was a new update for my wireless network card available. Downloaded it, worked.
Also nice: I plugged an old printer into my vista machine, Vista searches for drivers on the net and informs me that the manufacturer don't intend to deliver Vista drivers for this printer ever. And it pointed me to a website where I could find printers that work with Vista.
Btw, the printer works under Ubuntu and XP fine.
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I'm sure they did not pay enough. Vista supports almost every printer from the Epson Stylus Color series natively, with the exception of my modell the stylus color 580. But thanks to VirtualBox, I can just start my WinXP Virtual Machine and print through it.
Has anyone ever actually seen that work? I don't mean the bit where it phones home and sends your first born son to Microsoft, but are there really any drivers at the other end?
Yes, indeed, it never worked in XP, but in Vista it worked for me just the way it is supposed to do. It downloaded the missing driver, everything fine. Vista Update even informed me that there was a new update for my wireless network card available. Downloaded it, worked. Also nice: I plugged an old printer into my vista machine, Vista searches for drivers on the net and informs me that the manufacturer don't intend to deliver Vista drivers for this printer ever. And it pointed me to a website where I could find printers that work with Vista. Btw, the printer works under Ubuntu and XP fine.