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Inquisitr ^ | 10/24/2014

[Dr. Sivana]

Im thinking about fairly new scanners that will not work as soon as microsoft issues a new version of their op system because nobody eill uodate the drivers.

Well, I did have some of that, too, though I tend to blame the vendors. In our old prepress operations, we had a high-end Canon proofing fiery laser setup ($20,000) supporting both MacOSX (Power & Intel) and Windows XP boxes. I installed XP 64 bit on the Windows box, and it was completely unsupported by Canon. Now, I understand that XP64 was never a barn burner in sales, and was a niche product, but the $20,000 Canon setup was supposed to serve that niche! Outside of full blown animation and some types of scientific modeling, nothing needs the 64-bit overhead more than high-res publishing. I blamed Canon, not MS, but the user still gets stung.

[Crusher138]

I chuckle at this, because when I go to a “mall” about twice a year, there is an Apple store over-run with people and a Microsoft store with cobwebs growing on the two bored-to- tears employees.

While we don't have a Microsoft Store, we do have a Best Buy where they sell both Apple and Windows products. The Apple section is basically one table and a couple of racks of accessories and the Windows section is several rows.

There are always people crowded around the Apple table every time I go in. Maybe half as many wandering among the Windows stuff.

Makes me smile.

[roadcat]

I chuckle at this, because when I go to a “mall” about twice a year, there is an Apple store over-run with people and a Microsoft store with cobwebs growing on the two bored-to- tears employees.

I noticed this too. I stepped into a near-empty Microsoft store earlier this year, and a couple employees nearly knocked each other over trying to corner me. But I was there to look at the Makerbot 3D printer and didn't bother to look at Microsoft computers. All Apple stores are always crowded with customers.