Tag: cad_software

Which Applications Work on Windows Vista?

December 07, 2007 by Jason

What is probably the most common question I get regarding application compatibility? Can you just give me a list of all of the applications that work on Windows Vista?

Sounds easy, huh? Well, it’s not quite that easy.

First of all, there is the obvious problem of claiming that any software works at all. If anybody can come up with a full proof way of proving that any piece of software at all is bug-free, then that person is going to be very rich indeed. Even if we fully test software as we would use it, that doesn’t mean we use it how you would use it. If I use some CAD software to design houses again and again and it works flawlessly under a huge amount of testing, what happens if the bugs exist when you use it to design something very small (like a screw) or something with a lot more vertices, such as a piston engine? We just don’t know. Read More»