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Mostly true; the "change"was pretty much between VISTA and Win 7. I bought a "NEW" laser (monochrome) printer about a year ago (after a 30 y/o H-P LaserJet 4P finally died) and it still "shipped" with Win 7 drivers! The manufacturer (XEROX) did have the Win 10 drivers (if needed; some Win 7 drivers were still good!) I USE it wired through USB, but it is supposedly usable through WiFi, and I fear it might not be "Windoze 11" compatible. But much of the hardware support and documentation was written when the main Windows version was widely available, and doesn't mean it won't work with a later version of Windows, although updated software MAY be able to support tit's features better. For\the most part, Win 10 can use Win 7 and later drivers, but hardware sold for VISTA, XP or earlier doesn't even have the hardware in it's "library" or database. (Case in point: I have an C, ITOH [dot matrix] printer. Even XP from Microsoft didn't include drivers for such an "old' (think DOS or Apple ][+ days!) printer, but I can still use it with Win 10 if I need to. It IS a game Microsoft and the computer manufacturers play, they always win (by making perfectly good and functional hardware obsolete) and the users ALWAYS lose, by the need (or at least perceived need) to buy a new computer. upgrades of versions often installed such "undocumented" software to enable use of hardware not natively supported by Win 7 and above.