Good news for all you Vista Users. Winforms, ie. Zipforms has patched the Winforms desktop and made it Vista Compatible.

Winforms worked with Vista, but you could not use the Vista Aero theme and Winforms at the same time. More of a hassle then major problem. 

I just downloaded it and upgraded our laptop and winforms is working fine now with the Aero theme, so all is good for that. Now I just need to patch all the other problems I am still having.
Get the Winforms patch here

I really tried to get Trang over to Ubuntu, but there are some major deal breakers, most are not because of Ubuntu, but they are deal breakers all the same.

1. Couldn't connect up to all our printers. WE have 2 all-in-ones and 1 laser printer. The all-in-ones work fine with Ubuntu, but there are no drivers for the laser printer…and Konica does not plan to support linux. I will not buy a Konica printer again. It was on sale, and it was cheaper then all the other makers, but prices have really come down so next time, it will be an HP.

2. Cannot connect to the San Francisco MLS. You need IE6 or 7 to connect. It will not work in Firefox. I also tried to run IE6 with Wine (windows emulator on linux) which will run IE6, but sfarmls.com still did not work. This also bring ups another "Major" Problem with sfarmls.com. They do not support the public access to the IDX anymore, yet they still allow agents to use it on their websites. The problem is, most agents do not know that is does not work with Firefox and and their home searches are broken. The Solution, get a third party IDX provider. This brings up another problem….You can only use the IDX provider that your broker uses.
   As you can see I have some issues with Sfarmls because they make it so difficult for agents to use there products. Ironic since, San Francisco is the one of the most technologically advanced places on earth, yet our home search technology is from 1984.
3. Top Producer will not work. Again it's an IE thing, will not run with Firefox. Solution, use SugarCRM, a free open source Customer relationship manager, or Act. Unfortunately Top Producer puts its users into year contracts.

Other then that it works fine. Email, Excel, Word, Browsing all work great.

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