Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses

writertype writes "Although Blackboard is used to communicate between students and professors at virtually all of PC Magazine/Princeton Review's top 20 wired colleges, when run under a Vista environment users can see glitches. Moreover, IT departments told PC Mag that if Blackboard is used with Vista plus IE7, students can't communicate via the software. When asked why, Microsoft ... waffled. Blackboard says they'll have a fix in place by summer. Meanwhile, are there any other common college apps that Vista fails to work with?"

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Re:It's Blackboard's problem

[Goffee71]

I'm vaguely surprised Microsoft didn't add their own version to the software. Then again, they hardly added any proper new features, imagine what Microsoft could have added to Vista to inspire people to use it....

Anything like this would have been welcome

Free flow - A multi-layer desktop. Featuring your personal choice of web, or your company's choice of essential intranet information, flowing in the background. We've got Glass - let's use for more than just fluff.

Cut, paste and flip - When you paste one selection of text over another, the removed text is copied back into the clipboard, ready to be dropped elsewhere. Assign it to Ctrl+Alt+C for ease and employ as a full part of the OS, not just a feature in one program.

PIMP - Passenger Information Mobile Protocol - One for the commuter/jet-set laptop and Smartphone crowd. When you are on plane, train or at the airport, terminal, anywhere in the civilised world - your PC can link FOR FREE into a PIMP (Just branded Wi-fi really) spot and you can grab the latest travel information, offers for hotels, places to eat.

And a few others... http://www.goffee-freelance.blogspot.com/