Simplifying printing in Windows 8

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

MoWeb — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:14:43 GMT

So, at 3/4 of the way through this article, and was really excited to see how things were changed and implemented... but then it all ended before resolving anything. Was the author of this post previously employed on the Fox network? How about some resolution.

I agree something needs to be done though. If you're trying to manage an SOE for educators these days, you'd like to have OS + Adobe Creativer Suite + Productivity Suite + Partition for user data - and that's already pretty hard to do on a 128GB SSD. Making Windows smaller and faster is a great idea. So, good work.

Best part about this is potentially the end of OEM drivers for printers. I'd love to see the end of bloatware printer drivers. I can guarantee that, in my environment, we will receive around 10% of new users (or users getting new computers) in 2013 returning to our doors because of "slowness", "crashes" or straight-up BSODs. It's the same each year. My first question: "Have you recently installed a new printers or multi-function centre at home", to which I will almost always get a "Yes" and maybe a "It's a new HP". My second question is then always: "Did you install the driver from the CD that came with it", to which I almost always get a "Yes, how did you know?". I then uninstall that out-dated, buggy, bloated, rubbish (which can take a LONG time) and either install the latest driver from the website (and sometimes just use a universal driver if they offer it), or teach the users how to do it themselves. This issue occurs EVERY year and is fixed in almost the exact same way as described here. DEATH TO THE OEM DRIVERS! Or at least the discs they ship with the devices.

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

wangzhengkun — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 06:08:36 GMT

blogs.msdn.com/.../simplifying-printing-in-windows-8.aspx

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

XAML guy — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 00:10:32 GMT

Good post, thanks for this, a good read!

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

theelements — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:48:10 GMT

Very cool!

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

AZJack — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 22:29:00 GMT

@Gray Knight; Windows 8 is faster, faster than W7, Lion & ML.

I too only have a couple of problems; Metro Metro Metro!

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

Eduardo Molteni — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 21:45:35 GMT

I've stopped buying Epson printers because the hideous drivers and popups when printing. HP drivers are more integrated into Windows, and that's good.

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

Mike — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:42:26 GMT

@windows 8 hater !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

troll :

legendary Scandinavian creature that lives in caves !

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

Kenhes — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 16:08:02 GMT

@Gray Knight Does this video show what you're trying to do?

www.youtube.com/watch

I'm sure the update glitch, which I have too, will be solved when Windows 8 is released.

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

Gray Knight — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 15:50:41 GMT

I'm really liking Windows 8. It is the fastest computing experience I've ever had. Android has nothing on the start time of Windows 8, at least for the devices I have.

I only have a couple problems:

I have 3 screens setup at home and I would love to have several metro apps running on multiple screens, when clicking the start menu on a screen with just the desktop, the one with the metro apps disappears and the desktop replaces it;

the other problem is that I have "updates available" that appear (but then aren't available), I saw some comments on using powershell and figure out which app is the problem, but there needs to be a better solution for cleaning out problems with the installs in metro.

Thanks for doing these blogs that really get to the details that were being evaluated when developing Windows 8. Obviously a lot of time was spent figuring out how best to improve each area of Windows. Great job, keep up the good work. I'm looking forward to testing out the RTM bits and seeing how our currently needed software runs in the much improved Windows 8.

re: Simplifying printing in Windows 8

Nigidi — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 13:51:16 GMT

It is necessary to reduce the amount of code instead of the constant increase it! It is not optimized. Then everything will work quickly and well!