I work for a small software development company based in Oklahoma City. Our main product is a Realestate appraisal form filling software written (mostly) in VB6. The software is rather complex and has hella' dependency files (Count: 344) which are not installed with windows. Due to the nature of the way that Vista's permissions work the only way our users are able to get the software to work is to change their user privliges. (It prompts the user during install and walks them through the process)
I realize that writing applications this way is inefficient at best, but there are still people out there that use this method.
What about all of the old legacy applications that are no longer updated? Is Vista going to be backwards compatable with them?
As for the user interface and feel.. Well.. I would rather use Windows ME.
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I work for a small software development company based in Oklahoma City. Our main product is a Realestate appraisal form filling software written (mostly) in VB6. The software is rather complex and has hella' dependency files (Count: 344) which are not installed with windows. Due to the nature of the way that Vista's permissions work the only way our users are able to get the software to work is to change their user privliges. (It prompts the user during install and walks them through the process)
I realize that writing applications this way is inefficient at best, but there are still people out there that use this method.
What about all of the old legacy applications that are no longer updated? Is Vista going to be backwards compatable with them?
As for the user interface and feel.. Well.. I would rather use Windows ME.