WIndows 10 does not have drivers for 90% hardware out there

[Galdorf]

Does not look good for people upgrading to windows 10 there is a 10% chance that their printer aio might have a driver chances are if it is over a year old your sol.
So far out of a dozen customer not a single one can use their printer/scanners does not look good for Microsoft also alot of software is not compatible as well so windows 10 might not be for everyone even Nvidia is having issues with windows 10.

 

[phaZed]

Source for this, or just what you are seeing?

I have had the opposite experience. I have setup at least 20 printers, new and old, home and biz grade and I have not had one fail or give issues... they all just worked.

According to this article, most all "modern" printers should work and drivers for 10 are available for virtually all old and new printers.
http://www.pcmag.com/article2/0,2817,2488989,00.asp

 

[ohio_grad_06]

I have set up a couple with old printers, a lot of them had the drivers already. If not windows 7 or 8 drivers appear to work.

 

[AtlCPU]

I have to agree with the ohio and phazed I too have setup several upgrades and have not had a driver problem.

 

[Galdorf]

Well really high end commercial printers don't seem to have any drivers home users sure most are there but these printers are like 20k with sorting,double side printing and stapling .

 

[activeits]

I have not experienced any issues up to now, and for an really old Epson Printer, the Epson Scan Vista Driver worked perfectly under Windows 10, that was the last driver available on Epson Website for the printer.

 

[ohio_grad_06]

I would think if the drivers work for 7 or 8 you can probably use them. I've used drivers from 8 a time or 2 and they've been fine.

 

[NYJimbo]

Can anyone confirm if Windows 8 drivers are compatible with Windows 10 on an UPGRADE ? I know that many Win 7 machines seem to work okay with Vista drivers, unless the driver install balks at seeing the wrong O/S during install.

 

[TAPtech]

I wouldn't be putting myself in the situation where I'm installing Windows 10 on computers that are using Enterprise grade printers. Are you letting your business clients upgrade to Windows 10 already? Need to wait for Software and Hardware guys to catch up. That includes LOB software and vendors like Ricoh...

It looks like QB is compatible, at least according to Microsoft. So that's a giant chunk by itself.

I've only done a few residential systems (I'm 90% business) and have had zero issues so far. I really like Windows 10.

 

[nlinecomputers]

So far I've only had one video card that didn't have drivers but nVidia only had drivers for Windows 7 and never made any for 8. The driver stack in 10 is almost exactly the same as 8 is so most drivers should do fine.

 

[seedubya]

Well really high end commercial printers don't seem to have any drivers home users sure most are there but these printers are like 20k with sorting,double side printing and stapling .

WTF is someone who uses a commercial printer (i.e. a business) doing upgrading to 10 at all at the moment?

 

[14049752]

Typical Galdorf headline....sheesh.

 

[slowride326]

I just upgraded my POS machines, and they all seem to communicate fine to my receipt printer, label printer, and normal desktop printer.

 

[Moltuae]

I wouldn't be putting myself in the situation where I'm installing Windows 10 on computers that are using Enterprise grade printers. Are you letting your business clients upgrade to Windows 10 already? Need to wait for Software and Hardware guys to catch up. That includes LOB software and vendors like Ricoh...

Agreed.

I haven't so much as looked at a Windows 10 system yet and I've no intention of pushing it out to my business customers for at least a couple more years, and not until I have a year or so experience of working with it myself with business software, in a domain environment, etc.

I'm probably less than 5% residential, but I wouldn't even recommend Windows 10 to those customers yet, not until I'm 100% familiar with it myself.

 

[SprinterTech-WI]

installed and auto found drivers for a couple ricoh and lexmark units as well as some older hp enterprise units (just used base drivers and ip port).
All of our smb brother units were found on the network and auto installed same with the epson receipt printers, dymo's and the older ibm 1332 units.

if you're upgrading enterprise systems rib a check on all hardware and software first, that's a given i thought for business upgrades anyways....

 

[NETWizz]

I did not have any problems. There was one broken driver (video), but Windows 10 fixed it without me going through the motions ... ultimately, it told me to reboot, and after I did that everything was copacetic.

I should point out that many manufacturers may not have a specific group of drivers listed for Windows 10 (i.e. on Dell, HP, Intel sites, etc. though I have NOT checked to make this statement for sure), but the point is the driver model has NOT changed, so a Windows 8.1 driver should most likely work in a pinch.

 

[Galdorf]

Having troubles getting high end Nikon digital cameras working windows 10 does not seem to pick them up.

 

[Galdorf]

LOL windows 10 had some updates after the updates were done and it restarted the start menu button no longer works for half my customers.

 

[Screwloose]

Having troubles getting high end Nikon digital cameras working windows 10 does not seem to pick them up.

Since when did high end Nikon equipment become 90% of hardware?? "The sky is falling!" much?

 

[ohio_grad_06]

At my day job since I do the business as my after hours, but at my day job we are deploying 10. Not many issues. Biggest issue we did have someone tried to upgrade themselves without our help/input and the radeon x1300 video card in their pc didn't work right for dual screens anymore. It is like a slim dell proprietary type though. Other than that it's been smooth, except for having to update symantec to the newest version to work on 10.