Clarion flys on Windows Vista
Breaking the silence around here. 
We recently purchased 4 identical development laptops for the office, and as 1 of the laptops was being unused (It has to go to Namibia sometime), we decided to install Windows Vista Beta 2 on it. We received this version from our Action Pack Subscription, and have later realised it isnt the most stable version out, since RC1 just came out a week ago, but nonetheless we gave it a whirl.
So 5 minutes after installing it, we had to give Clarion a go on it, 1, to see if it would compile, and 2, to see if there are any speed improvements. And boy were we surprised!
I put my XP pro laptop next to the Vista laptop, copied my code over to the Vista laptop, and carefully using both my hands on both mice, I hit “generate all”. The Vista machine “out-compiled” XP by around 5 seconds the first run, 9 seconds the second run, and when I created a dummy global variable on both machines so that the entire app would compile, the Vista machine won by a staggering 18 seconds!
Reading Paul Thurrott’s website about Vista, I realised it isn’t a good idea to upgrade MY machine to the version of Vista we have, but if I could get my hands on RC1, which at 3.2GB’s to download, I would definitely upgrade!
So heres to Vista and Clarion. I just can’t wait!