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GradyGrady Posts: 11
edited 2009-01-29 02:56 in General Discussion
I am not sure if this is the correct formum to bring up this subject. I couldn' find any threads that discussed this issue. I have the Parallax Oscilloscope and noticed that the software has been updated but one of the features I have used for a number of projects is the FFT. That feature is no longer in the updated software. Why was it deleted?
I continue to use the·earlier version but the new version does have some good features.

Post Edited (Grady) : 1/25/2009 7:48:27 PM GMT

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  • Chris SavageChris Savage Parallax Engineering Posts: 14,406
    edited 2009-01-26 16:25
    Grady,

    The original software was written using Visual BASIC along with some plug-in modules by a third party company. When windows Vista was released Microsoft announced that there would be incompatibilities with certain Visual BASIC applications. In all, about half of the VB modules we not compatible with Vista. Of course, our customers who had Vista wanted to use their scopes so we released the new version of the software. Since the modules used in the original software were not compatible we had to drop a few small features. Take care.

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    Chris Savage
    Parallax Engineering
  • GradyGrady Posts: 11
    edited 2009-01-26 19:07
    Chris,

    Thank you for the reply. I guess it boils down to Microsoft making more money for it's operating system than having satisfied customers. I know that Parallax is concerned and is good with it's customer's.



    Thanks
  • sylvie369sylvie369 Posts: 1,622
    edited 2009-01-26 19:20
    I'd assume that Microsoft has long since given up on having satisfied customers.
  • Invent-O-DocInvent-O-Doc Posts: 768
    edited 2009-01-27 02:47
    I think some major compatibility upgrade or utility is coming out for Vista in the next few months, despite the fact that Windows 7 is near.

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  • RICoderRICoder Posts: 91
    edited 2009-01-29 02:56
    off-topic, but needs to be said:

    Microsoft spends more time and effort (at the expense of innovation) ensuring backward compatibility across multiple versions of an operating system, something their only competitor (apple) has never done. Deprecating support for ancient VB APIs is not something that can be complained about seriously, and saying that they are money-grabbers and that is WHY they are doing it is worse.

    I don't much care what people think of MS, and I'm no fanboi, but stuff like this just gets to me a little...
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