Microsoft contributes to scanner effort
InternetNews | at | by Mike
In an effort to make it easier for scanners and all-in-one device makers to interface with Windows Vista, Microsoft announced Thursday it is contributing a set of Web services protocols it has developed for scanners to a standards group working on that issue.
Microsoft is contributing the protocols to the Printer Working Group, a program of the IEEE Industry Standards and Technology Organization, according to the organization's Web site.
"The purpose of the protocols specification was to enable network scanning in home and small business environments," Mike Fenelon, a technical lead in Microsoft's documents experience group and author of the spec, told InternetNews.com.