Thread: Calibre not seeing Kobo in Windows 10 Preview builds
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Old 08-01-2016, 03:52 AM   #21
davidfor
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Originally Posted by Diruuo View Post
Is this a problem with the firmware on the Kobo devices or a missing driver in Windows itself?
The Kobo devices work with the current released version of Windows 10. They don't work with the preview of the anniversary version of Window 10.

The above says that MS have broken things.

But, it is possible that Kobo are doing something wrong and that Windows has been accepting that up until now.

Who knows. All I know is that I won't be accepting the Windows 10 update until I see some news.

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Edit - aren't we expecting a firmware update soonish? It might resolve the issue. I'm not familiar with how this particular thing works so I have no sense of where the problem is and how it can be fixed. Theoretically it should be fixable via an update to the Kobo or a release of a new driver for Windows...
Yes/no/maybe. We won't be seeing it this week. The latest a new firmware will be seen is when the new devices are released. Kobo have said something will be announced mid-August. If that is devices, then they will probably be released in September. That means a firmware release at around that time. But, the update might not come to all devices at once. Sometimes Kobo releases just before the new devices, and sometimes Kobo holds the updates for existing devices for a month or so after the new devices. It seems to depend on if they are releasing new function and want it on the new devices before everyone else gets it. I'm not going to try and predict what they will do this time.

The announcement might be something else. The obvious thing is OverDrive support. That is supposed to be coming according to the OverDrive CEO, but we haven't seen anything from Kobo yet. Or it might just be some new marketing campaign.

The problem with the firmware updated coming after the Windows update is that it will have to be installed over WiFi. There are people here who don't have WiFi and only use the connection to the PC. And there are people who refuse to use the WiFi. That makes updating those devices problematic.
Last edited by davidfor; 08-01-2016 at 04:02 AM. Reason: Added reply for the edit to the post I was replying to.
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