This is standard for Microsoft, not following the standards, and thinking that everything should revolve around them. Will they buy me a new card when I need to move that card to a different device for some reason or other? Didn't think so.

Bittorrent is your friend there - he cannot host it because as others have said, a lot (not all) of the tools are pirated - a decent tracker or even a google search will help you.

I also have a Brother 2070N printer, and it has worked flawlessly for me. Small, compact, no paper feeding issues. An after-marker toner cartridge is about $35 or less, about $50 for the OEM. I paid $50 for it on sale at Office Depot. Has network, parallel, and USB connection (I think, I just use the network port, so may be wrong about what other ports it has).

This stuff is designed, planned, coded for and integrated over a number of years and is very static. No changes. If there has to be changes, they're done under a quality control methods so strict that, yes, Duke Nukem 3D might see the light of day first.

Uhhhmmmmm....I think Duke Nukem 3D HAS seen the light of day.....
Maybe, just maybe, you mean that piece of vaporware called Duke Nukem FOREVER?