[APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

[Tim Long]

"Supported" is different from "will work". Microsoft often says that a certain configuration is "not supported" meaning that you can't ring up and expect to get technical support with it. Often though, it will still work. The people who did the web page might have tripped over that distinction. Microsoft has historically shied away from supporting virtualised products, but they are having to get better at it because virtualization is a big part of their current strategy.


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-----Original Message-----
From: apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net [mailto:apbeta-bounces at lists.astroplanner.net] On Behalf Of Chris Todd
Sent: 20 February 2009 5:05 PM
To: AstroPlanner Beta Testers
Subject: Re: [APBeta] [OT] World Wide Telescope

On the day WWT was released, they claimed to support Mac, via
Parallels or Virtual PC.  By the next day, however, the only OS listed
as supported was Windows.  Interpret that as you will.

Chris

On Fri, Feb 20, 2009 at 10:10 AM, Paul Rodman <paul at ilanga.com> wrote:
> What I was interested in was the web version (using Silverlight I believe)
> which had the same functionality but was a bit slower. That would work (I'm
> guessing) on the Mac. However there's no sign of it on the website
> (http://www.worldwidetelescope.org/), unless  I'm getting old, or it hasn't
> been released to the unwashed masses. The professional astronomers and
> astronomy students at the talk weren't interested in running it on Windows.
>
> Paul R.
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