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October 14, 2006
Diskeeper and Vista
We've made Diskeeper 10 beta versions available since earlier this year. While we figured to learn more about Vista in the process, it was done primarily for those of you on the edge of new technology who wanted to use Diskeeper as you tested Vista. I noted in earlier blogs that we're very strict about the quality of software we send out, including beta software. That is why we went through stringent testing before we made each build available. That, in turn, means a time gap between a Microsoft build release and a Diskeeper beta release. It is a trade-off of time for quality. To date, we have received no major bugs reports (only a few install issues related to earlier UAC problems fixed in later builds of Vista). We've watched Vista "grow up" over the past year into a really solid and stable OS.
In the last few weeks/month we've been outpaced by Microsoft as they near their release. While it only takes a few days to test and change the code to release a new beta, these Diskeeper beta versions are at the mercy of other projects.
Our most important yearly project has been wrapping up, thereby taking all development and test time from other projects. That of course, is the next release of Diskeeper. At this time, the likelihood is that the next iteration of Diskeeper for Vista will be based on the next Diskeeper platform. And, when Vista hits the streets, Diskeeper will officially support it.
Posted by Michael at October 14, 2006 07:47 AM
Comments
Will Diskeeper be avaible soon for Vista RC2? I used the Beta on RC1 and it made a huge difference it response time and over all speed of the machine.
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I really hope it will be avaible soon since it wont run on RC2
Posted by: Todd Shepard at October 16, 2006 10:14 PM
Funny that an upgrade install of Vista with DK already on XP will allow diskeeper 10 to run fine in Vista, but you can't install DK from scratch in Vista RC2. Not even DK 2007. :(
Posted by: xgman at October 19, 2006 12:40 AM
Yes, very true. Though there are known bugs (running on Vista) in the software you would have been using on XP. Paul Thurott of winsupersite covered this as well in one of his articles on Vista (that Diskeeper can be used).
If you absolutely want to get Diskeeper on Vista, you can be clever and edit the installer. If you do that (and we don't endorse or support that) at least use the latest beta version we have for Vista, as it will at least have less bugs (if any).
Posted by: Michael at October 19, 2006 01:36 AM
If I buy a copy of Diskeeper 2007 Pro Premiere now ( Oct. 28, 2006) will it work with Microsoft Vista????
Posted by: Dave at October 28, 2006 10:02 PM
Hi Dave,
While the full version of Diskeeper 2007 does not support Vista today (Vista is not a final product yet), you will be entitled to a free update when Vista is officially released. Diskeeper will support it at that time.
Posted by: michael at October 30, 2006 06:09 PM