Microsoft's List Of 800 Windows Vista-Compatible Apps
Posted by Emil Protalinski on 25 February 2007 - 18:12 · 15 comments & 8776 views
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#1 Posted by raskren on 25 Feb 2007 - 18:27
- Way to go Apple.
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware. -
#1.1 Posted by tylershaw on 25 Feb 2007 - 18:34
- Quote - (raskren said @ #1)Way to go Apple.
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware.
Don't make this about Apple when you have other large corporations like Adobe that also do not have their products ready. Adobe might be waiting for their CS3 launch for all we know.
Apple has sales at stake as well as any other company that has software for Windows, and for so many brands to NOT have drivers ready or just compatibility issues in general means that there's a larger problem. -
#1.2 Posted by GP007 on 25 Feb 2007 - 20:37
- It's not a huge problem, well, for us end users yes, but for hardware makers and software makers, they see a new Windows release after 5 years and think, "Time to get people to upgrade!" That old video card not fully supported, time to upgrade, sound card, samething. You're photoshop or CAD program not working right with Vista, well damn, time to upgrade it. Fork over the $$$ to Adobe/nVidia/Creative and whoever else, and buy their newer products which will, you guessed it, fully support Vista out of the box.
As for Apple not getting their stuff to work, it's pretty simple, they're holding off as much as hey can until OSX 10.5 is out so they can then hope, and do they really hope, people will switch and never go to Vista. -
#1.3 Posted by Greenstein on 25 Feb 2007 - 21:08
- Quote - (tylershaw said @ #1.1)Quote - (raskren said @ #1)Way to go Apple.
Despite the face that iTunes and QuickTime are free downloads, chances are good that the downloader has an iPod, meaning he or she is a paying customer.
Other apps like Airport Extreme Utility for Windows also require the user have Apple hardware.
Don't make this about Apple when you have other large corporations like Adobe that also do not have their products ready. Adobe might be waiting for their CS3 launch for all we know.
Adobe does have their Adobe Reader compatible with Vista...version 8.0. -
#1.4 Posted by Aero Ultimate on 26 Feb 2007 - 12:30
- Quote - (Greenstein said @ #1.3)Adobe does have their Adobe Reader compatible with Vista...version 8.0.
No one needs that bloated Adobe Reader garbage when there's Foxit
Besides, Adobe Reader has a known memory leak issue on Vista.
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#3 Posted by Imranjamadar on 25 Feb 2007 - 19:08
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#4 Posted by bluarash on 25 Feb 2007 - 19:16
- The last time I check iTunes does work under Vista (yes, even Music Store purchases and Audible). The real problem is that the software is not stable. It is very resource intensive, even more so that when running on XP. Further, it is buggy and crashes a lot, like all the time. Music skips and playback of videos is very limited (even on an Nvidia 7600). I can't watch DL.tv without it freezing and just getting audio and skips frames like crazy.
Still they are the only one with an all-in one solution that is actually practical. It is just too bad that their software is not any good. It looks like a nightmare running under Vista. It may work in OSX but it is about time that Apple began to release products that actually look like Windows applications. Apple would do well to at least copy the color scheme of Windows Vista in order to make their products blend better.
If Microsoft released a version of the Zune that actually worked with Windows Media Player and support both Podcasting (within client) and Audible files I swear I would switch tomorrow. Hell, I'd probably put my ipod on the ground and run over it with my car a couple of times for good measure. This from someone who has been a die hard ipod user since 2002. -
#4.1 Posted by GP007 on 25 Feb 2007 - 20:40
- I beleave a future Zune update will add support for podcasts and other things. Why they didn't make it work with WMP11 but it's own little version of WMP (cuz that's all it really is), was probably for the Zune specific DRM support they didn't want to add to WMP.
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#5 Posted by Croquant on 25 Feb 2007 - 19:36
- This is all spin, people. You know that there are items that aren't on the list that will run under Vista and items that are on the list that have issues under Vista. It's just a list to counter the other list (you know, the 140 apps list or whatever it was... I don't really care.)
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#6 [Guest] Posted by Guest on 26 Feb 2007 - 02:58
- so... this list of applications and programs... does that mean they will run without vista having to turn of glass? when I use Macromedia Flash etc... glass shuts off. If Macromedia ever hits that list, does that mean glass will stay on?
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#7 Posted by +Dakkaroth on 26 Feb 2007 - 05:34
- I thought Adobe Photoshop was Vista compatible? Or at least that's what my friends that have it installed said.
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#8 Posted by wicker_man on 26 Feb 2007 - 08:20
- Don't you have to give MS a bucketload of cash to get your programs 'certified'?
Virtually all of Microsoft's own offerings are on the list. Also included are a host of business and security applications from vendors ranging from Intuit to Trend Micro. Desktop applications from Google made it in, but some of the world's biggest software companies, including Adobe Systems, IBM, and Symantec didn’t make the cut. Tech industry analyst Rob Enderle of the Enderle Group blames the fact that IBM and Adobe are becoming increasingly competitive with Microsoft in the desktop applications market. Also absent from the list is any software from Apple. Enderle thinks Apple has purposely chosen not to make some of its more popular applications, such as iTunes, Vista-compatible.