Linked by Thom Holwerda on Sun 25th Feb 2007 22:19 UTC, submitted by jayson.knight
Microsoft has released a list of 800 applications that should run properly on its new Windows Vista operating system. As expected, virtually all of Microsoft's own offerings are on the list - including the latest Office 2007 products. Also included are a host of business and security applications from vendors ranging from Intuit to Trend Micro. And desktop applications from Google, which ramped up its rivalry with Microsoft earlier this week with the introduction of online business applications, made the cut. However, noticeable by their absence are applications from a number of the world's biggest software companies, including Adobe Systems, IBM, and Symantec.
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I can't reply to myself for some reason, and it's past my edit time...
I just wanted to clarify my calculation and my statements as I have realized they aren't entirely consistent. I didn't check these packages to verify if they are indeed marked stable, as opposed to testing or unstable. I corrected my methods to take this into account.
Once again, disregarding development tools and library packages, only considering packages marked stable on x86 (which is Vista's most supported platform), and only counting each package once even if multiple versions of that package are marked stable, I count 4734 packages.