in 617610 20070217 120940 "OG" wrote:
"Bob Martin" wrote in message
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in 617552 20070217 014725 "OG" wrote:
"Malcolm Race" wrote in message
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Ater a torrid time trying to help a friend install Virgin (aka NTL
Broadband on a new Dell laptop with Vista installed I have been told
categorically by the Virgin helpline that they do no support Vista.
Slightly alarming as it seems that all new computers ship with Vista
pre-installed.


Basically to summarise the previous resonses

Virgin are unprepared for Vista
Why blame Vista ?

Maybe because one is not being unreasonable in expecting an operating
system to be backward-compatible?
Especially when one is given no choice as to which OS is loaded on a new
machine.

It depends on how well/badly the software has been written. You may get away
with badly written software on one OS, but not on another.

Similar to the way that some non-w3c complient webpages may be rendered OK
on some browsers, but not on others. It's not the fault of the browser.

What is worrying is that Virgin know their software doesn't work on Vista
and have done nothing about it.

I don't think it's valid to compare html (which is really source code) with working
compiled code. While the former may be rejected by a more standards-conforming
compiler or browser the latter should work on subsequent versions of the same
operating system (Vista is Windows, isn't it?).
Also, knowing a program doesn't work under Vista and doing something about it
are quite different things. Seems Vista was actually designed to break a lot of
old code.