MSFT-1
Well Known Member
OK, admittedly this is a post that has a little more to do with my day job (I work for Microsoft).
I have a Garmin GNS-430W in my airplane. I use Jeppesen Services Update Manager (JSUM) to download updates to my IFR data each month. For several months (OK, a year and a half) Jeppesen's website says they do not yet support Windows Vista but would real soon.
Each month when it is time to do the update I would hall out an old laptop that still had Windows XP on it to do the update. In frustration last night I sent a snarky note to Jeppesen tech support pointing out that Vista shipped almost two years ago. To their credit they replied within a couple hours and said that JSUM works fine with Vista - it was their flight planning software that has issues.
I just did this month's update using JSUM on my Vista machine and it worked perfectly.
Bottomline: If you have been waiting to upgrade to Vista because of Jeppesen (for updates) you can ditch XP now.
And a note from my employer: "We didn't make Bruce say any of this. We're Microsoft and we approve of this message"![Wink ;) ;)](data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7)
I have a Garmin GNS-430W in my airplane. I use Jeppesen Services Update Manager (JSUM) to download updates to my IFR data each month. For several months (OK, a year and a half) Jeppesen's website says they do not yet support Windows Vista but would real soon.
Each month when it is time to do the update I would hall out an old laptop that still had Windows XP on it to do the update. In frustration last night I sent a snarky note to Jeppesen tech support pointing out that Vista shipped almost two years ago. To their credit they replied within a couple hours and said that JSUM works fine with Vista - it was their flight planning software that has issues.
I just did this month's update using JSUM on my Vista machine and it worked perfectly.
Bottomline: If you have been waiting to upgrade to Vista because of Jeppesen (for updates) you can ditch XP now.
And a note from my employer: "We didn't make Bruce say any of this. We're Microsoft and we approve of this message"