Groove 3.1 and Vista Plan

[Peter Christy]

I've had some nice email exchanges with the Groove team about issues of
Vista and Groove, specifically for those of us who are happy 3.1 users with
multiple machines. Please don't treat this as anything formal from Groove
but this is what I think is true:

(1) Groove 3.1 on Vista is known not to be robust (e.g. use of Control
Panel crashes it)
(2) the Groove team is working on these Vista bugs and intends to fix them
(timeframe uncommitted)
(3) a Vista-safe version of Groove 3.1 will be made availlable to licensed
3.1 customers.

I think this is all good news. Since Groove 2007 can't be mingled with 3.1
on one account there was no way to use Groove on Vista without a full upgrade
to 2007 with no upgrade pricing and a significant price to pay. These actions
solve those problems and uncouple the Vista and Groove 2007 upgrade decisions.

Again, wait until Groove confirms or denies this, but I think this is the
working (good) plan.

 

[Peter Christy]

I agree it basically runs. I have seen some "edge" conditions but more to the
point until now Groove didn't put a lot of effort into testing 3.1 on Vista
and validating that it is of the same quality as 3.1 on XP. I don't mean to
suggest that it doesn't basically work but rather than I don't think it is as
robusted or supported/testing as was the case on 3.1.