Re: Does any software work with Vista?

William Mackenzie

This is a very touchy subject. I feel that most individuals that are not born
techies do not care about other companies not changing there drivers. They
just want the product to work... I myself love the IT field and have a
limited unstanding of what it takes to create such an animal. I have the
utmost respect for companies that just do it and let the other companies
catch up. Hats off to microsoft for not allowing the other companies to
dictate what there next move is.

"John Barnett MVP" wrote:

> While it is easy to blame Microsoft for ever PC woe one must appreciate that
> developing an operating system is a two way street. On one side you have
> Microsoft and on the other you have third party software developers and
> driver developers.
>
> There is a large number of software applications that 'still' will not work
> on Vista. This isn't Microsoft's fault, it is the fault of the software
> developers. I have asked many software companies 'when will a copy or update
> of a copy be available to run on vista', the answer is, generally, 'when we
> are ready to make it work on vista.'
>
> Driver manufacturers have also had ample opportunity to develop drivers for
> Vista, but they haven't. Some of the very large hardware manufacturers have
> been extremely slow to even update drivers. I have an HP PSC printer which
> is 2 years old. HP have developed a 'basic' driver which enables it to work
> on Vista. Yes, it works, but i have no refinements like i had in XP. So how
> do i get these refinements? Well not from the printer i have at the moment.
> My only alternative is to buy another printer that 'is' vista compatible.
>
> Many developer's didn't even both to think about updating drivers until
> vista was actually released. While i didn't have much hardware problems
> during the early beta testing of vista there were many beta testers that
> simply couldn't use vista at all because no vista drivers were available for
> there hardware.
>
> While i am of the opinion that Microsoft is 'partly' to blame one should
> never forget that there is two sides to every story.
>
> --
> John Barnett MVP
> Associate Expert
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> "TMarinaro" <> wrote in message
> news:...
> > Well, Vista has really left a bad taste in the mouths of alot of people. I
> > use my laptop for alot of various puropses, including web design, video
> > capture and so on, however since I got a new laptop, with Vista on it all
> > I
> > have is a 3000 dollar headache!. None of my software is compatable, more
> > then
> > half my hardware is not compatable, what a mess. So now my options, live
> > with
> > my headache, or buy a new copy of xp pro, and prey I can find all the
> > drivers
> > for this laptop. In all the years and all the different versions of
> > windows I
> > have never had this much trouble getting things to work. Thanks for such a
> > fine product.
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