by adrien » Mar 13 07 6:06 pm
you need to realise that less than 0.01% of our customers use Vista (yet). We know of course this number will rise.
We are working on other things than just OS compatibility. Like major new functionality that provides benefit to people, rather than just support for a new OS.
We are doing a bunch of restructuring for the next major WinGate version. It doesn't make any sense to do all that twice - once for a patch for Vista for WinGate 6.x for the couple of people that want it, and once more for the next major version.
Sorry if that's not what you wanted to hear, but that's just the commercial reality of the game here - there's just not enough demand for a patch for WinGate 6.x for Vista to sidetrack us from WinGate 7 (which will support Vista).
The timing has been such that the next version wasn't ready for the release dates of Vista. We are working flat out on it though. And your previous version licence will still work in the next version as well, so it's not like we force people to pay for upgrades to get a version that will work on Vista.
Regards
Adrien