I've actually found driver support in Windows to be extremely flaky. I've had old hardware refuse to work under Windows 7 as the only driver available is a 32bit WinXP one. I've heard stories of scanners and printers not working in Windows 7 - I don't know if they're true or not.
That' true! I work in IT support and have encountered that serveral times. A few printers, and a significant number of scanners had no drivers whatsoever for Win7; sometimes I managed to get away with Vista drivers though the manufacturer offered none for 7.
On a bright side, I got a sleek little Canon scanner for free because its owner couldn't use it anymore because he completely switched to Win7 on his two machines. That scanner worked the moment I plugged it into my Ubuntu powered machine;)
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I've actually found driver support in Windows to be extremely flaky. I've had old hardware refuse to work under Windows 7 as the only driver available is a 32bit WinXP one. I've heard stories of scanners and printers not working in Windows 7 - I don't know if they're true or not.
That' true! I work in IT support and have encountered that serveral times. A few printers, and a significant number of scanners had no drivers whatsoever for Win7; sometimes I managed to get away with Vista drivers though the manufacturer offered none for 7. On a bright side, I got a sleek little Canon scanner for free because its owner couldn't use it anymore because he completely switched to Win7 on his two machines. That scanner worked the moment I plugged it into my Ubuntu powered machine ;)