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The remorse of HP

by Miha Markič 5. February 2007 14:11

A week or so ago I fumed over HP's attitude of forcing me into buying new scanner and ditching perfectly working old one just to get new drivers. And, as in the Lost series often happens, a miracle happened. HP people are obviously reading my blog and the felt a bit of remorse after my post. After all that scanner is their baby. So, the wise men there decided to make an inhuman effort and started porting drivers to Vista. Don't believe me? The same old arrogant page now reads like:

Sounds more reasonable. If they deliver, of course.

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The arrogance of HPIn one of the latest posts I ranted about missing Vista drivers for some hardware I own. Among them ...HP releases basic ScanJet 3970 driver that supports VistaGet your ScanJet 3970 Vista driver here. It seems working just fine. Miracles obviously still happen...Vista drivers and big companiesI have been running Vista x86 for a while now (since it went RTM). The only problem I am facing is t...

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Giuseppe

2/5/2007 6:07:22 PM #

lol

i switched (after 14 years windows!) to Mac OSX at home for my private usage, coz i get mad with vista & ms.

Alvin

2/20/2007 3:45:15 PM #

I don't believe it. I saw the same thing you did, but I fully expect HP to completely abandon me on this scanner. I use a scanner maybe once every 6 months - being forced to spend so much on upgrading something I use so little really burns me up. Now when I go to the Vista page for the scanjet 3970 - it is blank.

Miha Markic

2/20/2007 9:39:39 PM #

Yep, the page is almost blank now. I guess after remorse comes chaos.

Miha Markic

2/21/2007 1:32:54 PM #

And the old "we are working on drivers" page is back again. There is still hope I guess.
I remember similar situation with HP photo scanner - when Windows XP come out (I think it was XP) they didn't have a driver nor they wanted to update it. After (I guess) huge user revolt they gave up and wrote the driver.

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Miha currently works as a free lance consultant and software developer specialized in .net area.
He graduated in Computer and information science at the University of Ljubljana, Slovenia. He has accumulated experience in various programming languages such as Java, Visual Basic 3-6 (MCP), Visual C++, Delphi, C# and VB.Net through years.
He has experience in practically all (technical) stages of project development, including planning, framework development, user interface, business processes, as well as testing and documenting. He has worked on big and small projects in Slovenia and abroad (e.g. participated in completing level 3 IS for the Nucor steel plant, Hertford, USA).
Currently he enjoys programming in .net environment using C#. Since 2000 he has been active in Developer Express' DX Squad and has been ECDL trainer and tester. He also gives lectures on conferences and other events in Slovenia.

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