After a report from a customer that Jyotish Tools for Windows would not run properly on Windows Vista I had to give it a try to find what was wrong.   I acquired a notebook with Vista installed and tried the program.  However it ran okay.  The same was true of the other Windows programs I offer with the exception of the Help file in Junior Jyotish.  That produced a warning that Windows Help was no longer supported on Vista.  So I replaced the Windows Help file in Junior Jyotish with an HTML Help file (CHM) and have posted that setup file as a replacement.  Unless you have Vista there is no need to upgrade if you already have Junior Jyotish.

As it turns out the customer with the Vista problem had a hardware problem and when that was fixed Jyotish Tools ran fine.

Personally I am a little underwhelmed with Windows Vista and it may well be a flop for Microsoft.  It is not all that intuitive and definitely has some quirks over previous versions.   As for security I guess they wanted to do it differently than Linux, Unix or the Mac so you get all kinds of little hand holding pop ups when you want to install software or change settings.  With Linux to do installs you have to log in as administrator so it is very clear to the user what is going on.  The interesting thing is Dell just announced they are going to start offering PC's with Ubuntu 7.04 (Fiesty Fawn) on them.  I upgraded to Ubuntu 7.04 last week and have been pleased with the changes.  Now fonts look better and the bug with my NVidia card and text which had been giving many NVidia/Ubuntu users fits has been fixed.

So I have to go look at Microsoft's chart and see if they are in for a downturn.