Why isn’t Windows more efficient

For years, Windows XP has had a nice little feature that if you don't have the driver for your device, you can select that it will search the internet for you. You simply click the button to search automatically and the Windows XP will go and search the internet for you. The problem is, I have been working with Windows XP for four years now and not one single time has it worked. I needed to get some images off a camera today and thought that I would try with Windows Vista. I plugged in the camera and the first time it crashed my computer. After I rebooted, I was prompted that Windows Vista didn't have the driver but it would look on the internet for me. After about a minute, Vista told me it couldn't find the driver (I noticed it was looking at Windows Update... of course they wouldn't have the driver). It then prompted me to have Vista find a solution... it couldn't do that either. So, I went to the Canon website... no Vista driver. Ah, what a pain. Finally (why I didn't select this option before) I opened my Mac. I plugged in my camera and turned it on... then, about 4 seconds later, I got this message (click to enlarge, if you need to): Too bad when Microsoft copied Macintosh OS X's interface they didn't copy the functionality as well.

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Corey Smith is the Vice President of Innovation at Fisher's Document Systems where he maintains a blog on business and technology.