Application compatibility with Vista

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Guest

Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application
compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in
how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for
that...

So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I
had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with
autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32
lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any
input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent
end and could not get started.

Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security
questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.

Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and
deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or
failed with?
 
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jonah

On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 09:54:01 -0700, Arthur Norman <Arthur
Which of these sub-groups is best for exchanging info on application
compatibility? I would have thought that there ought to be enough interest in
how existing software behaves on Vista to justify a separate group just for
that...

So far the early things I wanted to try (cygwin - certainly at least until I
had ssh/scp available) and mingw to give me a development environment with
autoconf/make/gcc etc. Vista appears to break cygwin. For mingw Vista-32
lets me install and launch rxvt, but then gcc will not admit to having any
input files. On viata64 I got a cascade of terminal screens without appearent
end and could not get started.

Firefox and winscp3 seem OK. ez-antivirus installs but I get 2 security
questions each time I reboot about its system tray stub.

Do others think that collecting application compatibility is useful and
deserves a special place here? What applications have others succeeded or
failed with?
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There is info here which is quite extensive

http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.php/Windows_Vista_Beta_2_Software_Compatibility_List#AntiVirus_3

Jonah
 
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Reed [MVP]

At the very least you should report these compatibility issues to Microsoft
as bugs.

Since there is no application compatibility public newsgroup, vista.general
is probably your best bet.

-Reed Rinn
MVP Shell / User
 
C

Colin Barnhorst

One problem is that compatibility is a moving target, especially from build
to build, so lists are not very reliable.
 
J

jonah

One problem is that compatibility is a moving target, especially from build
to build, so lists are not very reliable.
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Yeah but that link is a wikipedia type thingamagig which seems to be
updated regularly by users. Dunno how accurate it is overall but
everything I tried so far works as advertised.

Jonah
 
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