Nine months since its release, lots of hardware and software products
still don't work with Microsoft's operating system, including some that
are certified as Vista compatible:
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| If you're running Vista and you need a multifunction printer,
| Brother's MFC-5860CN might seem like a great choice. After all,
| it's proudly sold as "Certified for Windows Vista."
|
| But don't plan on scanning any documents to turn them into digital
| files. The 5860CN is capable of doing that, but the optical
| character recognition software that comes bundled with the printer,
| PaperPort 9 from Nuance, isn't Vista compatible. (Brother
| recommends that Vista owners use Microsoft Office's Document
| Imaging feature.) And the printer's Internet fax option? Forget
| about that, too. It works with XP, but not Vista.
|
| This kind of Vista support, says Jim McGregor, research director at
| market research firm In-Stat, is more like torture by small
| incompatibilities. And nine months after Vista's commercial
| release, it's not at all unusual. Major software publishers and
| hardware manufacturers are dragging their feet when it comes to
| supporting Vista, analysts say. While vendors have developed new
| products for Vista, many are leaving customers who purchased
| hardware and software before they upgraded to Vista with crippled
| or inoperative gear, says Chris Swenson, analyst with the NPD Group.
|
| Photoshop Users Upset
|
| Consider the plight of Adobe Photoshop CS2 users who have upgraded
| to Vista. That software still isn't fully compatible with the new
| operating system. Adobe Photoshop CS2 customers have been asking
| Adobe for a software compatibility upgrade without much luck,
| Swenson says. "If you want Vista and you use Adobe CS, you are
| going to have to buy the new CS3 version," Swenson says. Adobe CS3
| ($649) is the only version fully compatible with Vista. Upgrading
| from CS2 to CS3 costs $200.
|
| [...]
|
| At the release of the Windows XP operating system six years ago,
| incompatibility issues affected consumers to a much smaller extent,
| Swenson says.
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http://www.pcworld.com/article/id,138693-pg,1/article.html
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K.
http://slated.org
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| "[Microsoft] are willing to lose money for years and years just to
| make sure that you don't make any money, either." - Bob Cringely.
| - http://blog.businessofsoftware.org/2007/07/cringely-the-un.html
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