I recently bought a new laptop. As things are these days it came with windows vista preinstalled, all I had to do was to add my personal data and things began to run smoothly.
Until… I began to add my peripheral hardware.
First was HP Deskjet5550, in good working condition. HP site read something like “no driver here, but vista will recognize it and will let you print basic printing”, which vista did and I can print.
Second came HP Scanjet3400c, it worked under XP and did a perfect job.
HP site: this scanner cannot be operated under vista.
HP support rep: Software for 3400c under vista will not be available.
So what HP tells the world is: Trash your “old” scanner, buy a new one!
Which means: load the world with some more pollution and waste some more resources, because we at HP want to have a better balance sheet.
May be that a clear and loud call from users will update some minds at HP. It is 2009, the world is changing…
Environment does matter!