While we are focusing on the GUI that will come, two major players have released their new products, or are about to. Snow Leopard hit the streets at the end of August, while the much-awaited Windows 7 is scheduled for October, 22nd.

All tests for Fing on Max OS X Snow Leopard passed with a perfect green light. Fing is committed to maintain a small memory footprint. Any advantages coming from a 64-bit architecture are therefore less relevant to the application.

We had tested also Fing on Microsoft Windows 7 RC1. Some changes have been applied, and the current executable of Fing (which runs on Windows 2000, XP and Vista) doesn't start. We apologies to anyone who tried and spent times on that.

We have figured out a solution, and are currently testing for Windows 7 64-bit platform. We will, of course, keep you posted through news, mails and tweets.

Compatibility with new platforms is not the only feature you will find in the next release of Fing. But we'll keep that for another post.

Overlook Team

August is over, and despite the summer season, we had a lot of activities running. For the last two months we asked what kind of User Interface you would like for Fing. Meanwhile, the Team has been developing and testing several layers with amazing features.

As you may see from the chart, Web 2.0 interface wins, followed immediately by an application with O.S. Look and Feel.

What does that mean? The Web 2.0 experience is well-known for being really crossplatform, allowing easy remote access and easy integration with existing portals. We are working with browser-enabled application more and more these days.
On the other hand, people might be afraid that a Web 2.0 inteface means an online service. Fear not. We will keep on providing out Applications to be downloaded and installed on your preferred machines running Windows, Mac Os X and Linux. We will just leverage the browser to give you the best user interface that we can.

Being focused on cross-platform software, we will of course be cross-browser. Because you must be able to choose. Because it's your network.