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Well, as expected, I ran into some problems today, the first being driver-related (no surprise there). I have the Microtek Scanmaker 4900. Have they come out with Vista-compatible drivers yet? No sirree Bob. Not only that, but Vista does allow you to install the XP drivers. It’s just that once they are installed, they don’t work. Vista simply does not see the scanner. So you then have to uninstall it (well, you don’t have to, but there’s no point in having them installed).

Vista is so smart that it tells you what does and doesn’t work, right? So why didn’t it say that these would not work? It told me that the Creative drivers would not work and they did, and it didn’t tell me that the Microtek drivers wouldn’t work and they didn’t.

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Microsoft Corp. is taking tough measures to find out who leaked a Community Technology Preview (CTP) of Windows Home Server to The Hotfix.net blog after the software preview was posted on the site by a user named “Richard” soon after it was released to a small group of testers.

In an e-mail to testers obtained by the IDG News Service, Kevin Beares, the Windows Home Server community lead at Microsoft, wrote to Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) whose name contain “Richard” that they will not have access to the beta until he finds out who leaked the software to The Hotfix.net site.

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