"Peter Duniho" wrote in message
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I'd be curious to see what happened to the Windows Logo program. It was
instituted when Win95 was released, and had a long list of strict
requirements a program had to meet, otherwise the Windows logo could not
be
displayed on product packaging. I know in the year or so after, it got
watered down a lot.

I haven't checked up on it lately to see if it's still around, or what it
requires if it is. It ought to require that software run under restricted
accounts unless there's a good reason for them not to.

It is still around, and the "designed for Windows XP" logo does require that
software will run under restricted accounts and in a multi-session
environment (with Fast User Switching or Terminal Server). Of course there's
an exception for features or entire products whose whole purpose requires
more privileges, such as system administration or monitoring. A problem is
that you can sell unlogo'ed software with no problem, and the home market is
pretty much unaware of the meaning of the logo or at least its various
instantiations. I dare say we could pump up awareness of it, but then we
might run into accusations of trying to close the market. Also, many people
give all of their accounts admin privileges routinely, partly because of the
large body of game software (e.g. Flight Sim 2002, I think :-( ) that
requires admin privileges for, now, no particularly good reason.

-- David Brooks