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Originally Posted by robostangs548
It is a new program, and I don't think that software companies took advantage of the beta versions to establish a solid grip on what problems they were going to have, in order to fix their programs before the latest release of those programs, and now companies like Autodesk will and are going to have problems, but after that, and I sure that things will definitely get better.
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That's what I find a little astonishing about this situation. Vista has been released to the public since last October, and was in public beta or release candidate states for more than a year prior to that. Considering that it was (at that point) the next Microsoft workstation-class operating system, you'd think that software makers would be keeping better track of the requirements. Almost all of the "issues" with CAD software and Vista to date have been stupid things like needing administrative access to run the program. Any developer who's been watching Vista for any length of time knows that the move to running software as a standard user is one of the pillars of Microsoft's security plans—hence UAC and the roadblocks to running a program with administrative rights by default. Surely they could have begun to account for that in the nearly two years since Vista was first previewed to them.
Just as an interesting point of comparison, Pro/ENGINEER Wildfire 3.0 M030 (that's an old datecode, predating Vista) works perfectly under Vista, running with standard permissions. It may be a simplistic comparison, but if PTC could get it right, why are others having such trouble?