If you purchase an HP in the last year or so, you are instructed to visit the HP website and are guided to download the terrible HP Easy Start software, which is nothing but a downloader stub. Now, it is true HP no longer provides drivers for out of the box anymore or directly online. But that is bogus, because for the people that already have the update, it's wasting their time to receive a notices about old updates, only to find they already have that update, and in most cases, like this one, received it AGES AGO (in software time). The only rational explanation I can think of as to why MU reposts old updates as new, is the argument that it is a public service to make people aware of important updates, so it triggers or comes up on peoples watch list. I think MU relies mainly on user posts to be alerted when new updates are available.Īnd MU wonders why people don't pluck down money for the paid version of the MU software/service. conversely, there are important updates that users should be notified about immediately that MU isn't even aware of.

I know I'm not the only one who has noticed and commented on this. I've seen many instances of updates on MU being reposted as 'new' but are really old updates, or updates that were released weeks or months before the posting date on MU, as if MU just got around to it or wasn't aware until much after the fact that an update was available. So, does MU know this update is 14 months old and decided to repost it anyway with today's date? Or MU doesn't realize it is not a new update? Either way that doesn't say much about the MU internal process. This update was released by Apple on Octo(2017, not 2018), making it over a year old. So, today MU 'reposted' this HP PRinter Driver 5.1 update, rebranding it with a Decemdate.

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