V(ista)-Day

Well, things ain't great as far as Vista is concerned:

AutoCAD 2007 will not install (message says Vista not supported)
AutoCAD 2006 will install but not run
AutoCAD2005 will install with errors and not run

So the answer is No Vista until who knows when. Certainly not with AutoCAD 2006 or earlier. Maybe there will be a service pack for 2007, but we have not seen anything.

Dell has started selling computers with only Vista installed. However, you can get XP on the follwing lines:

Small Business:

Desktops: The Optiplex and Precision
Laptops: Latitude and Precision

Comments

[Art]

A good link for comparing Vista versions can be found at: http://www.winsupersite.com/showcase/winvista_ff_x64.asp

[bdk]

Just an FYI for you guys, AutoCad 2007 will work on Vista, but a few things need to be changed. Here is the forum that has directions to get 2007 working on Vista.

http://www.eng-tips.com/viewthread.cfm?qid=177727&page=1

[Art]

Thanks BDK. I am aware of that, but it is necessary that the user have administrator rights for that ability. Also it is a bit out of the norm and so we don't want to try to teach thousands of users how to bypass that Vista feature (yet)