Questions for Vista users

I, too, am grateful for the bleeding edge frontiersman ;-)

Bob

Let me echo Margaret's reply: thanks for all this. I too will be salting it away.

I think it will be a while before I am actually using Vista, but I do keep running into those who already are, and hopefully I will now be a bit better able to communicate with Quicken users on Vista.

Hi, John - and Margaret.

I doubt that either of you, personally, will encounter any significant problems with Vista, either x64 or x86, and Quicken.

As I recall, John, you don't dual-boot, so whichever version of Vista you choose should perform as straightforwardly as WinXP Pro. If you don't choose x64 and see the new Program Files (x86) folder, you may not notice much change, especially in Quicken. But, to sustain the quality of support that you have given here so freely for so long, I know you will want to explore past the basics, and you are almost guaranteed to see some glitches there.

Margaret, I think I've seen your posts in the EPoX newsgroup and they indicate some sophistication with multiple operating systems. You will have the same opportunities for confusion that I have seen and described, especially if you dual-boot WinXP x86/Vista x64, but you are clever enough and persistent enough to solve them without too much trauma.

I recommend Vista to both of you. The conversion path will have more bumps smoothed out if you wait a while, but you can't even start climbing the learning curve until you take that first step.

RC

Fraid not,... Dragon Naturally Speaking doesn't run in 64 bits and never will :(

Martin

Hi, Martin.

"Never will"? Maybe.

"64-bit WinXP or Vista will run all 32-bit software"? Maybe.

Did we both overstate our case somewhat? Maybe. ;^}

As I said, during the Vista beta period, I found several 32-bit programs that would not install and run in Vista x64. One that frustrated me was Adobe Photoshop Elements 4.0. But that one wouldn't install in Vista x86, either, at first. Another was Nero Burning ROM. By the end of the Vista beta, though, both those programs were available in versions that are now working in Vista x64.

I've never tried to run Dragon NaturallySpeaking, or any similar program. As of today, the Nuance website says, "Dragon NaturallySpeaking 9.5 does not support 64-bit versions of Windows Vista."

Have you actually tried to run 32-bit Dragon NaturallySpeaking in Vista x64, Martin? Or know anyone who has? What was the result?

RC