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Still waiting for Vista-IE7 support

info@jboye.dk(Janus Boye) — Tue, 28 Aug 2007 11:20:00 -0400

Back in April I commented on incompatibilities with various Web CMS tool interfaces and IE7 in Microsoft Vista. Now, 4 months later I am busy researching the upcoming 12th edition of the Web CMS Report, and still many vendors (e.g., CoreMedia, e-Spirit, eZ Systems, Vignette) do not yet fully support IE7-on-Vista, and in some cases (e.g., Synkron) seem to have no near-term plans to do so.

Interestingly when I interview end-users or consultancies they frequently bring up lack of Vista support as an increasing annoyance, in particular for editors (who frequently must work from home), but when I speak to vendors they never mention Vista support, unless specifically asked. Instead the vendors I've interviewed are much more keen to talk about "social software," blogging, and tagclouds. Supporting Vista may not be "hot stuff," but it is surely important as home users upgrade their PCs. [Update, September 4: CoreMedia points out that they already partially support IE7/Vista. Added Synkron as their plans for support are still in the dark]

New IE7 Shakes Up CMS and Portal Implementations

tbyrne@cmswatch.com; jboye@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne and Janus Boye) — Tue, 31 Oct 2006 16:19:00 -0500

Is your CMS or Portal vendor ready for IE7? As your read this, Microsoft is updating PCs around the world, but Tony Byrne and Janus Boye point out that support for the new browser varies across the content technology marketplace. Whatever your application, you likely have some important testing to do...

We release version 10 of The CMS Report

tbyrne@cmswatch.com(Tony Byrne) — Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:01:00 -0400

Our quest to tell the real story about web content management software continues today. In this latest edition of The CMS Report, we've updated all the vendor reviews and added some new evaluation criteria, including system reporting, micro-applications, and content retention -- addressing the increasingly important role of marketers and records managers. With this version, we also make available an optional "European Edition," which adds several new vendors active primarily in that region (Escenic, e-Spirit, eZ publish, GOSS, Immediacy, and Terminalfour). In North America, we begin coverage of Hot Banana and Hannon Hill.

As always, CMS Report buyers within the past 10 weeks will receive the new version gratis. Previous CMS Watch customers are eligible for discounted updates. Look for an e-mail shortly.