Re: Vista Software Requirements

"Jon Robertson" wrote:
I.P. Nichols wrote:

Help me out here what's the joke - is six months too early
or not early enough time?
<snip>
Eexpecting our company to make product changes based on a Logo
specification that was published in May is a joke. Albiet not a very
funny one.

OK, I see the point you are making...

It's my impression that it was only within the last few weeks that Vista was
far enough along in finalizing the security features and to have published
the spec before now would likely have resulted in significant changes and
then people would really howl.

OTOH is has been real easy to get included in the Vista technical beta
program and those who participated should already have a good idea what was
coming plus Microsoft has a Vista compatibility program for ISVs and have
released tools to aid in testing existing apps for compatability.

But I envisage there will be quite a few who will want their existing
apps to run without a hitch on Vista even if it means making some changes.

I agree. But for us, it is too late for that. At this point, I don't
envision our application to work under Vista until Q2 of 2007, at the
earliest. (At least we'll have SQL 2005 compatibility in this next
release.)

Have you taken your new beta version for a test drive on Vista public beta 2
and are your customers likely to require a Vista version of your software
prior to Q2 of 2007?



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