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Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows (www.theregister.com)

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Microsoft to kill off third-party printer drivers in Windows::Go native or go home: End of servicing plan rolled out for legacy printer drivers in fresh update

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[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Maybe they could require a wifi connection back to the mothership before the printer itself will do any printing. Or just say fuck it and ship their printers with wifi/ethernet only.

Hopefully the consumer market wouldn’t let them get away with that crap, but on a technical level I have to think there are so many ways to mess with it. Just look at all the other enshittification going on around us.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago

They could do it, just removing usb port. I dont doubt they will find a solution. Who knows maybe they will just bribe Microsoft.