Just a question about Vista and FP... no need for a long/involved thread...

[Bill Campbell]

On Mon, Feb 12, 2007, Kenneth Brody wrote:
>Quoting John Esak (Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:32:49 -0500):
>
>> Acknowledging that Vista has these new file sharing techniques and other
>> new things.... and also acknowledging that I just got a note from Nero
>> saying that they are "authorized" to be compliant with Vista... would it
>> behoove FP Tech to get a copy of Vista for testing from now... or, is it
>> completely unnecessary because of the way filePro itself works? I think
>> I saw a note from Ken that said filePro works with Vista just fine....
>> is this a definitive statement?  The only reason I ask is I just heard
>> of someone who bought a Vista machine, put it in place and started
>> working his apps (none of them filePro by the way) and several of them
>> didn't function properly. They had to revert to their old machine and
>> put the Vista based machine aside until the problem is worked out.
>[...]
>
>We already have Vista and have started more rigorous testing than the
>preliminary tests I had done back in November.  I don't expect any
>major problems with filePro itself, though the install may need to be
>tweaked to handle Vista's new security.

The article I referenced recently about Vista security seems to say that
much (most) existing hardware won't work under Vista, or will only work in
degraded modes, if the hardware and drivers haven't jumped through all the
hoops to satisfy Vista's DRM security.

	http://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/vista_cost.html

Another that refers to Vista a a $200 security pack:

http://reviews.cnet.com/5420-3513_7-0.html?forumID=104&messageID=2368541&threadID=220159

Bill
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