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Palm has finally released the final version of its Palm Desktop synchronization software for Microsoft's latest PC operating system, Windows Vista, which was released early last year. This edition of the Palm Desktop has been available in beta since the summer.

In addition to supporting Windows Vista Basic, Home Premium, Business and Ultimate, Palm Desktop 6.2 is compatible with Windows XP Home and Professional and Windows Media Center Edition 2005. 64-bit Editions of Windows Vista are not supported.

Palm devices supported include Palm Centro under Vista and XP and the Treo 755p, 700p, and 680, Palm TX and Z22, and Tungsten E2 under Vista only. The software is not compatible with other Palm devices, such as the Tungsten T5, LifeDrive or Treo 600.

And, unfortunately, this version of the Palm Desktop does not include some features of previous editions of the Palm Desktop:

For example, the Palm Quick Install Tool has been replaced by the Install Tool, which lets you install applications onto your device through HotSync. You will also not be able to synchronize e-mail through a USB sync cable, although wireless synchronization still works fine.

Birthdays and Anniversary reminders that appear in the Calendar on your Palm device will not appear in the Calendar in the Palm Desktop application. And color coding of events in the Calendar is no longer supported.

After installation, you may need to re-install third-party applications with which you currently synchronize, according to Palm.

You can download Palm Desktop 6.2 and the latest version, 7, of Palm's HotSync Manager here.