Topic: Vista release statement
Microsoft's new Vista operating system poses challenges to all but the most simple applications. This is a brief description of the issues surrounding getting NWare to function under Vista as well as our plan to address them.
The NWare software is actually a sophisticated set of applications that work together with separate components handling the user interface, compiler, and control communications. One of the areas Microsoft changed for Vista is how data is passed between applications. Thus, NWare will not function until we modify and test the code to accommodate this.
Another area of change is how application data is stored. Previously, programs and their associated data were typically stored in the "c:/Program Files" directory. Under Vista, programs cannot modify data in the "Program Files" directory after an application is installed. NWare currently stores its default settings, temporary files, and project files in this location. Vista has new locations for storing this data, the code needs to be modified to use these.
There are several other issues that will need to be resolved as well. We have started making these changes to the code and we expect to have a fully functional and well tested release no later than spring, 2008.