Conrad Herrmann of Zone Labs posted in
grc.security.software:
For right or wrong, Microsoft has made enough changes to Windows XP that render the device drivers of some previous versions of applications incompatible with the new OS. It's a pain.
In my 20 years or so of development experience, Microsoft has never failed to render some apps incompatible with the new OS version. It's a pain.
Applications vendors (like us) can complain about the difficulty this causes to the customers, but Microsoft knows we will release compatible versions of the software if we want to look forward to the next generation of compatibility.
MS developed Windows XP to be what it is, regardless of whether it is incompatible with version 2.6.88 of ZA.
So we updated ZA to be compatible with the new OS. It's a pain, did I mention that?
But, installing ZA 2.6.231 after installing XP will give you a working system. And our goal is to give you a functional security system that
works under the final XP when it is released.
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Conrad Herrmann of Zone Labs posted in grc.security.software: For right or wrong, Microsoft has made enough changes to Windows XP that render the device drivers of some previous versions of applications incompatible with the new OS. It's a pain. In my 20 years or so of development experience, Microsoft has never failed to render some apps incompatible with the new OS version. It's a pain. Applications vendors (like us) can complain about the difficulty this causes to the customers, but Microsoft knows we will release compatible versions of the software if we want to look forward to the next generation of compatibility. MS developed Windows XP to be what it is, regardless of whether it is incompatible with version 2.6.88 of ZA. So we updated ZA to be compatible with the new OS. It's a pain, did I mention that? But, installing ZA 2.6.231 after installing XP will give you a working system. And our goal is to give you a functional security system that works under the final XP when it is released.