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by Anonymous User on Tue Mar 14, 2006 at 12:49:22 PM PDT

A peripheral manufacturer is under an obligation to provide updated drivers for the operating systems that it initially supported when the product was first marketed.  When new patches or service packs are released for the OS, new drivers should be forthcoming.  

I don't agree that Canon has any responsibility to provide a driver for an OS that had not been released when the scanner was first marketed.  Canon did not claim to support that operating system in any of its product literature.  In particular, x64 is a high end OS for power users.  The scanner in question (a $125 machine) is intended for home use rather than commercial/industrial use.  As such, it is quite unlikely that Canon would find very many of these machines attached to a PC with a 64-bit OS.  There is no economic justification for supporting that particular combination of resources.

On the other hand, if the 64-bit OS actually does take off, why shouldn't Canon leave the door open to support it more broadly in the future?  "Maybe" is as legitimate a position as is "no."

Regarding Ed Hurst's dyspeptic diatribe against all of those peripheral vendors, I'm wondering exactly which vendors he does favor?  Centronix?  
Gwyl


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