Vista and drivers

[Thyssa]

Warning, for all those considering upgrading to MS Vista, please be aware that currently Vista doesn't come equipped with drivers for HP printers. Sooooooooo, as with me, I will wait for a year or two to even consider the option. All new Vista OS's being sold at the major tech stores have this version of OS which, is not going to be able to allow you to use your HP printer unless you go D/L the drivers and install them yourself. Not that it's a pain if you know where to go and what to do.... but most don't want to spend the time or deal with the frustration of finding out after spending hours trying to get the thing to work.

Just a head's up...

Thyssa

[jmack]

I have an HP Officejet T65 and the HP website said no Vista drivers are available and to upgrade to a newer product, but I added the driver for an OfficeJet R65 and it works fine.

[Thyssa]

Sweet! Glad it worked ... but I'm still not installing Vista on my home machine anytime soon :P

Thyssa

[Hermione]

Just me, but I wouldn't upgrade, I'd just wait and buy it on a new machine. My son the computer person says he's probably not going to switch to another MS product at all, but go to a Mac or Linux or something. He's a security engineer and not at all happy about Vista.

[ynotme297]

i have vista on my new computer at work, and it SUCKS. like you said, it won't work with hp printers. now i have a new office jet hp that i can't use for now.