RE: MS Vista and iSeries Access support

The AV software vendors seem to be having Vista issues.  Of course a
fair chunk of that is MS not releasing the APIs.

If you really want to know about the late of backwards compatibility,
talk to peripheral vendors about what they have to do to get drivers to
work under each successive version of Windows.  I'm not saying that the
changes to the driver model are bad, just that they generally break
backwards compatibility.

Here, we've had to pay expensive upgrade fees for some vertical market
apps that would run fine under Win98 but failed under 2k/XP.

Back in the late 80s, Borland's assembler was more compatible with MS
that MS' assembler.  The MS product required you to upgrade DOS versions
(IIRC) while the Borland product just ran.

The .NET world may be much improved from a straight-up app dev
standpoint, but the overall product line-up from MS is rife with
incompatibilities between versions and across product lines.

John A. Jones, CISSP
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Jones Lang LaSalle, Inc.
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From: midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:midrange-l-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Steve Richter
Sent: Monday, November 13, 2006 8:26 PM
To: Midrange Systems Technical Discussion
Subject: Re: MS Vista and iSeries Access support

On 11/13/06, albartell <albartell@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

They made over $4B in pre tax profits this past quarter - that tells 
you a

lot of customers like their products.

I can't help but comment on this :-)  When Microsoft makes money it 
means they changed something and want you to pay for it.  M$ makes 
money from selling software.  If they don't come out with new versions

and force you to upgrade they don't make money.

Well I would guess the bulk of their business comes sales to customers
buying new PCs.  But there are very good reasons for a business to pay
$500 to upgrade the software used by the average $50K salaied employee
- the new stuff is much improved from the old.   My Windows XP is
better than W2K. The latest IE that was a free download has great fonts
- completely eliminates eye strain.  The security features in Vista
promise to be a very good reason to upgrade.

If you factor out forced upgrades I bet M$ wouldn't make half of that 
$4B.  One just can't simply equate how much money a company makes to 
how happy their clients are with their products.

I am unaware of software compatibility problems that force users to
upgrade. Very curious to know why client access cant run on Vista.
Could be it is not written to use the .NET managed code framework.

-Steve
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