I'm happy to announce, that RC2 of ObjectStudio8 is available. You can download the install file from

ftp://ftp.cincomsmalltalk.com/pub/OS8/setup.exe
ftp://ftp.cincomsmalltalk.com/pub/OS8/setup.md5

Due to some restrictions in Windows Vista and some issues with the installer, we had to make several adjustments.

We have to use "Advertised Shortcuts", these shortcuts cannot be redirected or their properties be changed. The image and the ini files are installed into %MyDocuments% folder. The cls files installed in %ProgramFiles% are set read-only.

Be aware, that Microsoft seems to setup some UNIX-like directory structure here. Everything in %ProgramFiles% can be executed and read, but is read-only. All changeable files need to be in the users %MyDocuments% folder. All these things are necessary, if you want your users to use the regular user account in Vista and not the admin account.

Please keep that in mind for your individual applications as well.

We're confident that we can ship the final release in the very near future.

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