PBP, Vista and MPLAB

[Sean_Goddard]

Vista?? EEEUUUUUURRRRRRRGHHHHHH What a load of junk. Does things it THINKS you want it to with no regard for what you ACTUALLY want to do.

FACT!! Did you know that at the current rate of take-up, it will take until late in 2009 for Vista to overtake sales of XP and then it will only be 54% of the market.

Vista has been a disaster for Microsoft sales wise. Most IT professionals I know have rejected ANY idea of installing it until it is proved to be more stable.

One classic was an error message stating "A Critical ERROR has occured - Windows Vista has succesfully installed on your computer"! I have seen this quite a few times when a few people I know ran out and bought the latest "must have" junk from the Seattle Screw Crew.

Steer clear is the best advice, UNLESS it's the Business Pro version. Stay with XP Pro, far more stable.

[AndrewC]

Has anyone had any luck getting MPLAB to recognise PBP under Vista64 bit ?
I'm making no progress with it at all
Setting the compatibility to Win98 stopped MPLAB from loading so I tried XP SP2 and still couldn't see the language pack.

[AndrewC]

For anyone interested there is an effective workaround to run 32bit XP apps inside the Vista 64 bit environment. Microsoft has a free Virtual PC download. You can install that and then install XP as a virtual 32 bit OS inside a shell. Microsoft do state that Virtual PC is "unsupported" in Vista Home and Premium but "unsupported" is not the same as "does not work"

Update: gnash, gnash - the software all works but Virtual PC does not pass thru USB connections and I've got a USB programmer.

[millersamsr]

I believe VMWare supports USB...it did a few versions back.

Sam