Vista Compatibility

February 9th, 2007 at 06:07am David Bush - Iasta

I read a pretty interesting article in Fortune last night which went through a review of the much discussed, new operating system from Microsoft -Vista. After years of delays and security flaws, the new system is out and ready for the stampede of customers…

Alas, this has not happened, and for obvious reasons. I have a computer that is barely 12 months old and the crushing load from Vista would basically make my computer inoperable. Just sitting idle, a computer will need to allocate 512Mb RAM to breathe normally. Most new installations of Vista will come from new computers being built right now with the appropriate hardware. Another radical change in corporate IT, is the release of IE 7.0, which I actually like a great deal.

I mention all this because we, naturally, had to perform testing on these for compatibility with our software - SmartSource. I proud to confirm that we have had zero issues with software working well with both changes. However, it would be naive to just assume this happens with everyone. In fact, the Microsoft Partners webpage has intermittent and persistent problems with page loading on IE 7.0 (I am not kidding). Wells Fargo has huge warnings about incompatibility with the new releases and similar examples are seemingly endless. From our standpoint, there is always a hold-your-breath moment when Microsoft makes major changes. Fortunately, our software is rarely effected and we can concentrate on features, not workarounds!

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