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Old 08-04-2016, 04:06 AM   #31
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Originally Posted by davidfor View Post
Well, Jon didn't actually claim that "many different brands of reader" were affected. His claim is that many USB devices are affected. He didn't seem to be restricting this to ereaders until he mentioned Kobo and Kindle. And the reports here for devices not working included a camera and a GPS device (though they were against the preview, so I don't know if they have been fixed).

The problem for Kobo is that there is no device driver to release. They are mounted as a USBMS device using the drivers supplied as part of the OS. It might be fixable via a firmware update. That could make the device present itself in a different way that is acceptable to Windows - including old versions. But for anyone who doesn't have WiFi, they will have to find a non-updated PC to do the install.
Problem is, Windows doesn't even see a device. I'd have expected an "unknown device" message, but you don't even see any indication that an USB device has been attached (the same for my Garmin).
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