Anyone for Vista?

[rcgreen]

Helpdesks are pretty expensive to run and are a total drain on profitability

Yeah, but you could sell the tapes to Saturday Night Live?

[nihil]

rcg,

If 10% of the garbage had any shame, I would go for straight blackmail

MuHaHaHaHaHaHaHaHa!!!!!

[Virtus]

I think that you mean Windows 2000 SP4 ?

All the software vendor is saying is: "We do not support our product running under an operating system that is no longer supported by its vendor" Which I would translate as: "If it works on anything else, lucky you.............. if it doesn't don't bother to call"

That makes perfectly logical business sense.

All they have done is covered their a$$es by forcing you to read their disclaimer. To circumvent the check is generally pretty trivial, but makes you accept total responsibility for the consequences.

Helpdesks are pretty expensive to run and are a total drain on profitability

No, then I would have wrote SP4.. and your right, but its a shame when you upgrade your OS, suddenly 47% of your licenced software wont work anymore, and updates... "maybe next year bub!"

This is the main reason why I like Debian, if something not working, I report it to the mailinglists or.. write my own patch for it and send that to the mailing lists so others can benefit..

[nihil]

Hmmm,

No, then I would have wrote SP4.. and your right, but its a shame when you upgrade your OS, suddenly 47% of your licenced software wont work anymore, and updates... "maybe next year bub!"

(This software requires ATLEAST 2000 SP2 or XP SP2 to function, please check your system and try again) wtf!

You are not making sense. If the software doesn't work it isn't going to tell you what OS to run, it just won't work

Also, I do not believe that you will see software requiring Windows 2000 SP2 and Windows XP SP2. That makes no logical or commercial sense at all, as it would require supporting 3 service packs for Windows 2000, two of which are not supported by Microsoft.

As for "47% of your licenced software wont work anymore" that would mean that you have changed your operating system. Vista is a different operating system from other versions of Windows, that followed a logical progression:

..........-95 - 98 - 98SE - ME
......../ ...........................\
3.1x .................................XP
........\ .........................../
......... -NT4.0 .....-.... 2000


Vista is quite different, as it only really offers some legacy support functionality. That is why you can only "upgrade" it from XP or 2000 for starters.

If your software is of the licenced commercial variety, there are two possibilities:

1. You can upgrade it to the new OS.
2. The supplier goes out of business.

I also wonder how much of your problem is due to trying to run 32bit applications in a 64bit environment?