A fellow Virtual Assistant and good friend of mine, Pam Ivey, recently had to purchase a new computer. This is what she had to say:
"That night I went out and purchased a brand new HP Pavillion desktop with all the bells and whistles - 4600+ AMD Athlon dual core processor, 320Gig hard drive, 2Gig RAM, Nvidia GeForce graphics card, and the piece de resistance….a 22″ widescreen LCD monitor. Man, I was completely geeked.
That is, until I fired it up and proceeded to enter a new listing in an MLS system for a client and realized that Vista is NOT COMPATIBLE with Paragon, nor is it with FlexMLS. Okay, I resorted to my 2001 dinosaur PC as slow as it was, and figured life was okay. Then, I needed to prepare a CMA for another client, went into Top Producer 7i and guess what? Right you are…NOT COMPATIBLE!
So, just a word to the wise. Prior to upgrading to Vista or buying a new computer take heed - it may not work with your third party software."
Granted, Pam was trying to use programs geared towards the Real Estate industry (that is why most of you are saying what the heck is Paragon), but her advise is good for any industry. When upgrading to any software, especially a Windows application, there are always going to be issues with compatibility in the beginning. That is why I always wait a minimum of 1-year before going out and getting the latest and greatest!
Have a great Thursday!
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