Microsoft has released its newest operating system, Windows Vista, which includes improvements to security and desktop management. Vista’s security improvements will require applications to operate in a least-privileged user access (LUA) mode and escalate to higher-privileged modes only when the application requires them. While this improvement will help minimize the likelihood of malware attacks, unfortunately it also prevents legitimate software applications from operating correctly since many applications require either full or administrator rights.
Sage BusinessWorks version 7 does not operate correctly when Vista's new security feature is turned on (and therefore is not currently supported on Vista), however we are conducting research and testing to determine whether Vista can be configured in such a way that would allow version 7 to be installed on a Vista machine. Additionally, we are making investments to ensure future versions of Sage BusinessWorks will be fully compatible with Vista.
For the time being Sage BusinessWorks version 7 is not supported on Windows Vista until we have completed our evaluation but we are committed to supporting this new platform and will notify customers and partners as soon as we have more information.