Am I missing something? Microsoft is launching a Windows Vista compatibility center in beta? Seventeen months after Vista shipped everywhere? Oh, yeah, and the Windows Vista Compatibility Center is one of the big announcements from Microsoft"s Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston. Isn"t this the kind of thing you do before an operating system ships? Release compatibility tools for real, not in beta?
I planned to write about what"s in the beta. But I went to the Windows Vista Compatibility Center and all I got was this lousy screenshot. That sounds like a T-Shirt slogan, doesn"t it? There"s nothing there. Poof. Pure vaporware.