Are you trying to say it wasn't possible for Microsoft to make their OS more compatible with various user-mode applications?
-- That is exactly what I'm saying. When an OS is designed the last thing you should ever look at is backwards compatability. It sounds shitty, but as soon as you go down that path you start giving up things in turn for backwards compatability. With as slow as OS releases are, this slows down innovation quite a bit.
Most companies tend to work on getting their applications working on a OS, after it's been released.
-- That isnt true at all. Most decent companies start writing their new versions as soon as the spec is released and stay up with beta builds to ensure at release their application is working. Waiting until after the OS is released is a bad management call, sure your dev costs are quite a bit less... But at the cost of not having a product ready for a few months after release (what we are running into now)
What I dont get is why people are blaming application incompatabilities on Microsoft. These companies have all had well over a year to release a version that works under Vista. If they are incompatable at this point it is no ones fault but their own.
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Are you trying to say it wasn't possible for Microsoft to make their OS more compatible with various user-mode applications? -- That is exactly what I'm saying. When an OS is designed the last thing you should ever look at is backwards compatability. It sounds shitty, but as soon as you go down that path you start giving up things in turn for backwards compatability. With as slow as OS releases are, this slows down innovation quite a bit. Most companies tend to work on getting their applications working on a OS, after it's been released. -- That isnt true at all. Most decent companies start writing their new versions as soon as the spec is released and stay up with beta builds to ensure at release their application is working. Waiting until after the OS is released is a bad management call, sure your dev costs are quite a bit less... But at the cost of not having a product ready for a few months after release (what we are running into now)
What I dont get is why people are blaming application incompatabilities on Microsoft. These companies have all had well over a year to release a version that works under Vista. If they are incompatable at this point it is no ones fault but their own.
Outlook Web Access works fine in vista... Not sure what you are talking about