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Do the newer versions of the CPS run on Vista?

I've heard conflicting stories. I attended a training class at a Motorola facility a few months ago, and we were told not to hold our breath. The reason given is that there are numerous variations in Vista that are being released, and they all have their own set of issues, so trying to write CPS to work with every flavor of Vista is turning out to be a nightmare.

On the other hand, I've seen posts HERE and elsewhere that people claim they're hearing from /\/\ that new CPS versions are coming out with Vista support.

At this point, I'd suggest people try it, and if it works, great. If not, fall back to XP.
 

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I've heard conflicting stories. I attended a training class at a Motorola facility a few months ago, and we were told not to hold our breath. The reason given is that there are numerous variations in Vista that are being released, and they all have their own set of issues, so trying to write CPS to work with every flavor of Vista is turning out to be a nightmare.
Motorola, huh? The same folks who couldn't manage to write simple DOS apps (RSS) and get the serial I/O right.

They use gawd knows whose development tools and libraries and when the bugs therein cause the apps to fall over under Win9x, and now again for CPS under Vista, Mother Moto blames Microsoft. CPS isn't complicated - a GUI and serial I/O, yet they managed to screw it up. And don't expect them to fix it, since some of the bugs are going to be in other vendors' code. Until those tools/libraries are Vistafied, the CPS doesn't get fixed. What happens if those crutches don't have a Vista upgrade path?
 
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