Vista Failing "Blackboard" College Courses

Posted by Zonk on Friday March 30, 2007 @08:32PM from the stay-awake-in-the-back-there dept.

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:What's Microsoft got to do with it? by Anonymous Coward · 2007-03-30 21:41 · Score: 0, Redundant

Apparently you didn't read what you wrote. It's not Microsoft's job to make sure everyone's badly written software works as intended on a new platform (yet they generally do). That you don't have the same expectation for presumably any other OS, and certainly not Apple, is telling. You think ANY of my Apple II GS software runs in Mac OS X? Bandit Kings of Ancient China 1989 Koei runs on Vista Ultimate.

You're an asshat, and an idiot.