[cap-talk] Polaris is now approved for open source release

[Karp, Alan H]

Dave Chizmadia wrote:
> 
> Has any testing been done to see if Polaris runs and behaves
> correctly under Windows 7?
>
We haven't tested on Windows 7.  It should work on Vista, but it runs for a while then blue screens.  I suspect that's due to a kernel driver that's needed to work around a security bug that Microsoft isn't going to fix.  The rest of the code is standard Windows API.

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