Sage’s retarded Windows 7 readiness

Windows 7 has been available to developers as a test base for about a year. Windows 7 is now available as a retail buying option.

Now we hear that certain Sage products are ‘currently in testing’ as regards working with Windows 7.

In fairness, as software moves through the beta testing phase, things change and further testing is almost always required. But….given Sage is one of Microsoft’s biggest platform users, do you not think they could have twisted a few arms to make sure its own customers are not left confused at best and stranded at worst upon release of the retail product?

As an aside – this kind of problem doesn’t usually arise for saas providers.

UPDATE: Sage has revised its product readiness table as per below: