[Alghranokk]

I think this is unfair; m$ does provide perfectly usable generic printer drivers, as long as you only use basic universal features. The problem is that the printer producers each want to provide a host of features on top of that, each in their own proprietary way, with post print hole-punching, 5 different paper trays, user boxes, 4 different options for duplex printing.

Also, label printers, why the heck does zebra only do EPL or ZPL? Why not pcl6 or PS like the rest of the universe?

The point is that printers are bullshit. Nobody knows how they work, and assuming that microsoft should just figure it out on its own is at least in my opinion, unreasonable.

[breadwinner]

What Windows was known for in the 1990s, is good quality 1st party drivers. Then after Windows achieved monopoly status they shifted driver responsibility to device manufacturers. I have never had to install a third party driver on a Mac, but on Windows I do. If Apple can do it Microsoft can too.