corel 12 vistaand windows 7 compatibility

wrote in message news:50790@coreldraw.com...
> dear corel, please, please, please make an corel 12 patch for vista and
> windows7 platforms. i've been using corel draw for 9 years and thru this
> time i came up to the conclusion that the corel 12 is the best version so
> far. and now i can't use it on the laptop because it can not be installed
> on vista or win7.
>

X4 is the most current version. 12 is, what, 4 or 5 years old now? It
stopped being "in production" years ago. Why would any software company
release patches for an archived application for Operating Systems it was
never designed to run on? They'd have to rewrite so much of the code that it
wouldn't be cost-effective for them. And Windows 7 isn't even out of beta
yet so whatever specs they might have for W7 now may not be what Microsoft's
final gold version would be, thereby possibly making whatever patch was
created unuseable. Upgrade to the current version which is Vista capable.