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

[John Esak]

Thanks!  Now that was a pretty timely and complete as can be at the moment
reply!
Great.
John


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kenneth Brody [mailto:kenbrody at bestweb.net]
> Sent: Monday, February 12, 2007 1:14 PM
> To: john at valar.com
> Cc: filepro-list at lists.celestial.com; sales at fptech.com
> Subject: Re: Just a question about Vista and FP... no need for
> along/involved thread...
>
>
> 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.
>
> We are also looking into the "Works with Windows Vista Logo Program"
> from Microsoft, which (as the name implies) would permit us to include
> a "Works with Windows Vista" logo on our website/packaging/etc., as well
> as some other benefits from Microsoft.  Given the low requirements of
> the program (basically the program must install on Vista without errors
> and run "as well on Windows Vista as it does on Windows XP SP2" -- their
> words, not mine), I don't foresee any problems there as well.
>
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