Where is my HyperTerminal?

I have only been running Vista on my (consulting) notebook for about a month and half. And, for the first time in months, I had to connect up to a device (LunaSA) that required a serial connection. So, as a creature of habit, I attempted to fire up good old HyperTerminal. Unfortunately, my attempt failed. I knew someday it would come to this. But, I truly didn’t think I would need to write a eulogy to HyperTerminal with the release of Vista. However, in the name of progress (or licensing fees) I quickly discovered that HyperTerminal is not part of Vista, and more than likely will not be a part of future versions of Windows. Regardless of this finding, I still had to connect up to that LunaSA. So, I set out finding a replacement and quickly discovered something new and shiny (at least to me) that more then met my needs. The tool I stumbled upon is called: TeraTerm Pro Web. This handy dandy little piece of freeware from Ayera is based on the ancient but popular open-source TeraTerm product put out by T. Teranishi. Ayera basically just took the code and improved upon it. The result is TeraTerm Pro Web which not only did serial communications, but could also act as a Telnet client, supports SSH, has good scripting capabilities and could even function as a web server. Needless to say, I was sold. After downloading it, I was happily on my way to configuring that LunaSA. For all of today’s Microsoft news, visit Microsoft Subnet