Questioning the Windows standard

I don't really follow this sort of thing, but I noticed a story on the French police switching from Windows to Ubuntu. Even if the numbers are wrong, it is nice to see a large organisation that has actually not followed the defacto standard of Windows, which is what I see in the organisations around me.

Setting up an IP Printer in Windows XP

Yesterday I helped a colleague connect to a network printer directly via its IP address in Windows XP. In the Add Printer Wizard, we had to select:

Local printer attached to this computer

Does that seem just plain wrong (i.e. contradictory) to anyone else?