Had I known about some of these incompatibilities, I would not have
installed Vista. Maybe I'll learn to read before installing? Today I learned
that Oxford English Dictionery is not compatible with Vista and will not run.
OED tech supports says they are not compatible and now I wonder when they
might be. And if they do revise, what will I spend for the upgrade? Perhaps
MS can come up with a fix for this problem?

I previously ran into a problem with OED due to a MS security update that
knocked them out of the water. All owners of OED had to remove this update in
order to get it to run. Seems that a huge and important package like OED
would be part of the testing? Terrible when all my games worked ok but not
something like OED.

I'd like to know if anyone has a solution to this problem.

Wayne

"Rock" wrote:

> "exciter" wrote
>
> > The thing is this:
> > It may sound strange to you but I am interested in english language
> > dictionaries
> > and I use 8 dictionries on my laptop.
> > They all work fine and date back to early 90s.
> > And these dictionaries are essential to me that I use them almost
> > everyday.
> >
> > Now, when I upgrade to vista in excitement and if the my dictonaries will
> > not work
> > I will be very disappointed.
> > I dont want to sacrifice my current convenince in exchange of some fency
> > GUI
> > graphics stuff.
> > I hope u understand.
>
> Get a copy of RC1, load it on a test system, and try out your dictionaries.
>
> --
> Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User]
>
>

Here's a list from RC1 5660 compatibility:
http://www.iexbeta.com/wiki/index.ph...atibility_List

Judy


"Wayne" <Wayne@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:757107CF-B032-42F6-B41D-E2AA9C2B53E4@microsoft.com...
>
> Had I known about some of these incompatibilities, I would not have
> installed Vista. Maybe I'll learn to read before installing? Today I
> learned
> that Oxford English Dictionery is not compatible with Vista and will not
> run.
> OED tech supports says they are not compatible and now I wonder when they
> might be. And if they do revise, what will I spend for the upgrade?
> Perhaps
> MS can come up with a fix for this problem?
>
> I previously ran into a problem with OED due to a MS security update that
> knocked them out of the water. All owners of OED had to remove this update
> in
> order to get it to run. Seems that a huge and important package like OED
> would be part of the testing? Terrible when all my games worked ok but not
> something like OED.
>
> I'd like to know if anyone has a solution to this problem.
>
> Wayne
>
> "Rock" wrote:
>
>> "exciter" wrote
>>
>> > The thing is this:
>> > It may sound strange to you but I am interested in english language
>> > dictionaries
>> > and I use 8 dictionries on my laptop.
>> > They all work fine and date back to early 90s.
>> > And these dictionaries are essential to me that I use them almost
>> > everyday.
>> >
>> > Now, when I upgrade to vista in excitement and if the my dictonaries
>> > will
>> > not work
>> > I will be very disappointed.
>> > I dont want to sacrifice my current convenince in exchange of some
>> > fency
>> > GUI
>> > graphics stuff.
>> > I hope u understand.
>>
>> Get a copy of RC1, load it on a test system, and try out your
>> dictionaries.
>>
>> --
>> Rock [MVP Windows Shell/User]
>>
>>