Googling didn’t help me much here… does anyone have experience with this? I was all set to purchase the student version of SAS, but I noticed their site says “Not supported on any Microsoft Vista Operating System”. Does that mean “it’ll be a pain to install and we won’t support it”, or “it won’t work at all”?
Sounds like it won’t work at all but that is strange. Do they not think students run Vista?
I know that normal SAS will not work on Vista home versions but it works fine on Vista business .
I decided to chance it, and the installation was relatively pain-free. I set the setup file’s compatibility mode to XP-SP2 before running it, and it only bitched at me once about Vista during the installation process. I told it to shut up and keep going, and the program appears to work just fine.
Maybe they didn’t update their docs since Vista first came out.
Microsoft often charges a lot of money to certify a software product as Vista-ready or whatever term they are using. Often a software company won’t spend that for certain versions (like Vista Home), if they think most of their customer base is running a different version.
Or a software company may decide to skip this altogether, seeing how the marketplace (especially the corporate marketplace) has rejected Vista. They might just decide to wait for the next version of Windows.
Windows 7 isn’t that different from Vista, anyways, under the hood. What I mean is, getting software to work in 7 will often help it work in Vista. 7 implements a lot of improvements, but doesn’t fundamentally change the design as much as Vista did to XP.