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El Reg reports:
HP Ink--the PC and printers half of the Hewlett-Packard split--has blamed Windows 10 for a ho-hum quarter of declining sales.
[...] It's HP Ink's first quarter as a standalone company since the Great HP Split of 2015.
We were told Microsoft's software hasn't, so far, apparently, spurred enough people into buying HP-branded PCs. Well, that may explain the 13 per cent fall in the company's personal systems revenues.
How about its printers, though? People love printers, right? Always buying them. Always having fun on cold Sunday evenings reinstalling drivers. Unjamming the paper trays. Buying new cartridges. Revenues fell 17 per cent. Ah.
This should have been a boom quarter for HP Ink as the period covered the Christmas shopping season.
[...] Currency swings, the free giveaway of Windows 10 (normally people buy a new machine to get a new Microsoft OS), and the fact that no one uses printers any more is punishing a company primarily relying on printer and PC sales.
[...] "It's all bad", said tech analyst Anand Srinivasan, which is perhaps the most upbeat thing you can say right now about HP Ink.
(Score: 2, Interesting) by DonkeyChan on Saturday February 27 2016, @03:49PM
Their software is huge and VERY poorly written.
On more than a few occasions it's been directly responsible for 1gb + in ram usage and if it's broken in any way, 50% CPU usage.
An entire core pegged solid while the software, get this, WAITS FOR A BUTTON TO BE PRESSED ON THE PRINTER TO INITIATE SCANNING.
This the bare install of their software, their updating components and the little (huge apparently) program ScanToPCActivation.
It takes me an hour to install their software because I have to spend 40 mins removing the offending components.
It just gets worse over time too as the user profile registry is populated.
(Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday February 27 2016, @04:05PM
A lot of software that polls for events "the old way" (read win9X) will be locking a whole cpu core because they do it in a loop without sleeping between polling.