[casual_games] More good news on Vista!

[Joe Pantuso]

I guess this explains why we're getting increased traction with OEMs, we've
been Vista ready with our client and all games since the week before XMas.

Any small ISVs that haven't yet tried things with Vista, two things I would
mention to you.  One is that MS has a program for ISVs called 'Empower'
which gets you an MSDN subscription as one of the benefits, and the cost is
only $375 a year.  This would have got you access to the Vista betas a
year ago, and gets you licenses for VS 2005 etc., and will get you one
license each of Vista Ultimate/Home/Pro/etc. and is a pretty good value.

Second you can pick up OEM licences of Vista right now (yea, GA is only a
week away at this point but more importantly...) at a pretty good discount
off of retail on mailorder sites like newegg.com.

In addition to LUA testing you'll want to grab the Dec 2006 DXSDK and have a
look at the GameuxInstallHelper DLL which will make it possible for you to
insert your game(s) into the Game Explorer
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-US/library/ms687258.aspx


On 1/25/07, Alex St. John <stjohnalex at yahoo.com> wrote:

>

> Our QA labs are doing a light test sweep of the major casual gaming

> portals to see which ones are impacted severely by Vista.  It looks like

> Microsoft managed to break Trymedia DRM with Vista so it's likely that most

> if not all Trymedia wrapped games are broken under Vista.  This is

> consistent with our analaysis that at least 50% of the casual games

> currently posted on the major gaming portals are broken.  Our labs also

> report that RealArcade itself is broken by Vista.  If I'm not mistaken all

> the casual games hosted by Oberon on MSN are based on Trymedia DRM.  It will

> be interesting to see if Microsofts own casual game offering is actually

> Vista ready.

>

> Since a lot of small developers don't appear to have access to Vista

> builds yet we suggest that you try your games under a Windows XP LUA

> account.  If it breaks there, it certainly breaks in Vista.

>

> -Alex

>

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