Certified for Vista software

Tuesday, May 8. 2007

I have just come across this KB article from Microsoft which lists all applications which have earned the "Certified for Windows Vista" logo. I've been very surprised to see that there are currently (May 2007) just 237 such applications. If you remove those belonging to Microsoft, the number falls to 207.

I find these numbers really amazing. What does this mean? I wonder... Are the software companies not interested by the Vista logo? Is it that hard to implement the changes required to pass the certification? It cannot be the price, as Microsoft was/is still sponsoring the certification process...

For me, going through the certification process was an interesting experience. And it forced me to better understand areas such as MSI, discover new tools (such as the Orca database editor), getting access to WinQual and, best of all, play with new technologies such as the Restart Manager.

Posted by Pierre Arnaud at 08:44 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

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