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Windows Vista Vista and incompatibility

Discussion in 'Legacy Windows' started by alanrf, 2008/01/24.

  1. 2008/01/24
    alanrf

    alanrf Well-Known Member Thread Starter

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    Not about an issue but about an odd inconsistency.

    When I bought my Dell box some months ago Adobe Reader v7.0.8 was pre-installed - I upgraded shortly after to v7.0.9. No problems, and indeed, no issues until a couple of days ago when, unexpectedly, I started getting warnings that Adobe Update Manger was incompatible with Vista.

    A quick check on the Adobe site confirmed that v7.x was not Vista compatible, but v8.x was. Obviously, I downloaded v8.1.1 and there are no further issues.


    My query is: just why did it take Vista so long to realise that Adobe Reader v7.x was incompatible?
     
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  2. 2008/01/24
    Steve R Jones

    Steve R Jones SuperGeek Staff

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    Adobe Update Manger which is different then the product itself would be the culprit.

    My guess is that Adobe didn't something to the manager that triggered the flag in Vista.
     
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    CrunchDude

    CrunchDude Inactive

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    Did you maybe not use Adobe for a while? It surprised me as to how LONG it took for Adobe to come out with 8.1, the first Vista-capable version.
     
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