Microsoft Bookshelf Basic compatibility

Question

I read your answer about Microsoft Bookshelf Basic, telling that it isn´t compatible with Windows 7.

The problem is not the accuracy of that information, but the information in itself.

You can't say that one of your own products is not compatible with other. You sold it, you earn money for it, I bought it, and then is your responsibility to do it work with any of your further products.

You have to release any patch, any upgrade, any modification in the configuration, any  compatibility option, or something like that, wich could make it run!

Is a matter of responsibility with your own clients. Else you are claimable for your contractual behavior.

Thanks

Answer 1

Thank you very much, Marilyn. You're very kind and your information seems to be very useful! I'll prove it.

Anyway, I don't agree with the concept that anyone shouldn't expect that a program created in 1995 could work in 2.011.

The target in any new release should be to get a fully compatibility between new Operative Systems and the old programs. Anything that worked in an old Operative System should work in another that is sold as more modern.

And if users can do run the old programs, is unforgivable that the own Micorsoft programmers don't waste a little of time to give us the same or better solutions in a very short exe or batch file.

The problem is the lack of preocupation in programmers, about the needs of their old clients.

I play chess, wich was invented many centuries before Jesus Christ and that still works very well...

Greetings

Answer 2

Hello Marcos,

I also do not see a previous entry for your current user name. Perhaps, you used another sign-on name for your previous post and that is why we don't see the thread..

However, you might benefit from looking at a previous thread that was started about trying to get Microsoft Bookshelf to work in Windows 7. Click on the link below and review the thread from thuya on December 6, 2010. He has found a workaround that might help you.

http://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/windows_7-windows_programs/bookshelf-2000/709c0811-82f8-40aa-b814-d2c1e6fbe19b

Since Microsoft Bookshelf was first created in 1995, and updates in 1998 and 2000, you can't expect it to work fully with each newer operating system. It is no longer supported but we will give our best effort to help you.

Sincerely,

Marilyn

Answer 3

Who do you think could be the other part?

If you are just an ocasional reader, and you aren't the author of Microsoft Bookshelf Basic, if you didn't tell me that it isn´t compatible with Windows 7, if you didn't sell it to me and if I didn't buy it to you, then you aren't the person who I am speaking with.

Then, if you are just an ocasional reader, try to get into your business, and stop getting into mine. Else, if you are a part of the Microsoft team, try not to play as a fool and give me a real answer

Answer 4

Read whose answer? Who are you talking to? You've started a new thread instead of replying to the original. Learn to use a forum.