badbernanke

Will Windows 7 Resurrect IT Spending?

I will be a reluctant Win 7 user. When I "upgraded" my computers with 2 Vista 64 machines in early 2009, several "peripheral" devices refused to work due to no drivers -- the scanner on my HP multifunction refused to make the switch and I ended up having to buy a new multifunction. Dictation software was thankfully upgradeable, but no drivers for the hand held dictation devices (that worked with XP and 32 bit Vista) became electronic garbage because the dictation could no longer be downloaded.

Oddly enough, my HP multifunction's scanner does work under Ubuntu although the Brother multifunction I bought to replace the HP does not.

Anyone changing things that work for new OS technology has to be prepared for spending a lot more than a couple hundred bucks for the software.