>>We do a vertical market app.
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>>Our positioning to our customers is "We do not support Windows Vista. When it releases, we will re-evaluate our position after we've tested with the shipping product."
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>>Then again, we're still trying to get some of our older clients to upgrade from the DOS product to the Windows version. ;-)
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>Dan
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>I'm sure you've got users out there, just like we do, that will jump on the Vista band wangon without thinking about the consequences. After all, it's Windows, right? They will be in for quite a surprise because I think there will be quite a bit of "fixing" needed for existing Windows applications.
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>As an example, Quickbooks saves it's data files in the "Program Files\Intuit\Quickbooks" folder. Of course, you can change this but that's there default and I'm sure there are lots of Quickbooks users that have their data files sitting right there.
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>I would strongly recommend getting the RC1 build of Vista and doing some internal testing. I just downloaded the beta from MS's website.
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>We also have a vertical market application also and if we wait for our users to start calling, we're in big trouble. I must say, we don't have any DOS users (as far as I know) still waiting to upgrade to our Windows version.

I didn't say we'd wait for users to start calling and I didn't say we're not testing. I said we refuse to have ANY position until we have shipping product. ;-)

I'm not making promises about an OS I don't have yet. (Yes, I have the beta. It's not what users will see.)