On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:53 +0100, Tim Green wrote:
It feels weird recommending an HP printing device these days. The windows drivers leave a bad taste in the mouth.
I know, it's an odd thing. I refer to my post a few week or so back where I said that although I would like to see more manufacturer support I don't want to see the same bloated crufty "value added features" tat that seems to come with every Windows driver install these days.
Worst offenders for me (apart from the 500MB HP driver package installations for some of their multi function printers) are Nikon View (which should get some sort of award for most confusing interface ever) Canoscan Toolbar/ScanGear and later versions of Nero Express (I can't comment on Easy CD Coaster because I refuse to install it).
A prize for special effort should go to those wireless card manufacturers who replace a reasonably functional Windows XP Wireless configuration utility with one that only starts the card on login...because that is oh so handy when you want to log in as a new user on a domain attached machine.