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What flavors of the Windows Operating System are supported? What about Vista, Windows 7 or Linux?

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What flavors of the Windows Operating System are supported? What about Vista, Windows 7 or Linux?

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There are presently two versions of WattPlot: XP (for Windows XP and Windows ME) and NT (for Windows 98, Windows 2000, and Windows NT). Windows Vista is not an officially supported operating system for any WattPlot program. We do not have a copy of Windows Vista in-house, and there have been file access problems reported by Vista users. However a number of clients have also had success installing WattPlot for XP on Vista machines. We recommend doing the install in Administrator mode, running WattPlot in XP-compatible mode, and installing WattPlot software on drive D:\ (instead of the usual C:\) if possible. Windows 7 is not yet an officially supported operating system for any WattPlot program, because we do not have a copy of Windows 7 in-house, and there have been no reports of any WattPlot installations under Windows 7 yet. The WattPlot software does run on Linux platforms that emulate a Windows environment, however the licensing software for the WattPlot monitor program unfortunatel