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June 28, 2007 | Comments: (0)
Endless Vistas
I had to share the latest Vista error message. After clicking on Help from within the Palm conduit software, this popped up:
Why can't I get Help from this program?
The Help for this program was created in Windows Help format, which was used in previous versions of Windows and it is not supported in Windows Vista.
For more information, see Windows Help program (WinHlp32.exe) is no longer included with Windows on the Microsoft support website.
Now really. How hard would it have been to include support for the old help format?
- Bob
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Posted by Bob Lewis on June 28, 2007 07:16 AM
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I can only guess that it is security related; no chance of finding future weaknesses or exploits in the Windows Help format if they simply remove it.
In security speak, the cost to you (frustration) is an "externality" to Microsoft
With Vista, Microsoft has all but abandoned their own mobile devices earlier than Mobile 5, as I found out the hard way when it renamed my Pocket PC v. 4.2 device, unregistered WorldMate and will no longer convert Pocket Word Or Excel files.
Active Sync, which does the file conversions is not used by Vista; instead, Vista uses Windows Mobile Device Console, which does no conversions, since Mobile 5, or is it 6, now use the native file formats found in Office 2007. So those of use still using earlier Microsoft mobile OSs are SOL.
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