[hblug] OT - Things that dont run

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 24 Feb 2007 11:07:13 +1300
chris morris wrote:

> Microsoft releases list of verified Vista applications:
> But many popular applications missing, including Adobe, Symantec, 
> Mozilla, Skype and OpenOffice.org
> 
> http://computerworld.co.nz/news.nsf/news/BF314BCAE0395C34CC25728A00139131
> 
> What a coincidence that openoffice doesnt run on vista - I guess thats
> just business Redmond style..

Actually it does. There are new aspects of Vista that OO.o developers
are recoding for, but it runs pretty much fine as is.

>From a post on the users list:

[quote]
This information is from the "horse's mouth" so to speak:
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
OpenOffice.org runs fine on Vista. The current version (2.1) has some
minor bugs that are only annoyances (e.g. OOo uses the "old" file 
dialog instead of the pretty(?) new one from Vista). They will be 
fixed in OpenOffice.org 2.2

Some problems with system integration (e.g. showing thumbnails and
document property columns in the Explorer) are known that can't be 
fixed until Microsoft publishes the necessary interfaces. :-(

But they will not have any impact on running OpenOffice.org. You can 
use it on Vista as you can on XP.
[/quote]

Email Author
Mathias Bauer (mba) - Project Lead OpenOffice.org Writer

Recent posts have ammended that to say that there will be new improved
Vista features in OO.o2.3 as well.

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.