That quote is very telling, thank you for providing it. To me, this
shows that HP is up to no good and is trying to bury their older
products and make them unusable. Hopefully, someone will take it upon
themselves to offer these drivers. I'd love to see HP try to shut them
down.

The way this statement below is written, is, IMHO, about as sleazy as it
gets. They imply in some manner that the fact that Microsoft no longer
makes or supports those OSs somehow obligates HP to no longer provide
the already written and proven drivers.

HP loves to claim how GREEN and environmentally aware and concerned they
are, but this shows what they are really about. Yeah, for a fee they
will take their old products (and even those of other manufacturers) and
"recycle" them for you, but it would appear they are doing anything they
can to force obsolescence of their older products.

It's one thing (although I don't respect it) to no longer directly
support older equipment with new drivers or driver updates, but to then
pull the old drivers which are already written and were working is a
real slap in the face to the owners of their products and to the
environment.

Question for HP... if Microsoft is no longer "providing resources" to
certain OSs, that should mean there will be no further changes made to
those OSs, meaning the drivers should work as they are within the
environment of those OSs - so why remove them?

Fine. HP now has another consultant who can no longer recommend their
products with a clear conscience. I don't know if HP has any idea how
much undercurrent is developing regarding their product lines and
customer service, but eventually it will come back to bite them in the
butt. Sooner would be better than later IMHO.

Art




Airman Thunderbird wrote:

> My old, we talking old, 7700 series laptop's still supported, with OSes
> from 3.1 to 2000. Maybe just printers, or maybe they just ain't got
> 'round to dumping everything yet.
>
> Quote from HP:
> " Microsoft discontinued Windows 98/ME shipments in June 2002/2003
> respectively.
> HP’s Windows 98/ME driver discontinuance is directly related to the
> fact that there is no longer Microsoft resources allocated to issue
> management."
>
> Don't know why they couldn't have left the old stuff available for
> download, though.
>
>
>
> Barry Watzman wrote:
>
>> Did anyone notice that on July 1st, HP removed ALL drivers for any OS'
>> before Windows 2000? You can no longer get drivers for any NT or 9x
>> systems, even ones which were posted online as of 6/30. You also
>> cannot any longer order CDs with these drivers. Either you have the
>> driver already (on CD or saved download), or you know someone else who
>> has it, or you are screwed. This was applicable to ALL HP products,
>> across the board, not just printers.
>>