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... & Genealogy Cruise last February. Being a geneablogger (I proudly display the logo on my main blog page), I think Jill’s meme is a great way to advertise the geneablogging community and get more people to start doing it. So here are my meme answers: What are the titles and URLs of your genealogy blog's? “Louis Kessler’s Behold Blog” – yeah I know it’s a ...

... I have to submit new point versions back to Microsoft to recertify for the Windows 7 Logo. But I know I didn’t add any incompatibilities, and important future versions that will need checking are forthcoming. I’ll wait until then to resubmit. Here are some other things that have been happening: I became a member of the Association of Professional Genealogists  ...

... has attained Compatible with Windows 7 status. I’ve been talking about getting a logo certification for quite some time. You do have to make sure your program meets certain Windows requirements. I talked about that in a blog post back in November. I also checked to see what genealogy software was listed at the Windows 7 Compatibility Center. Several were, but only 3 ...

Yesterday's post got me wondering how many genealogy programs passed the Windows 7 Logo Requirements and are allowed to show the Windows 7 Software Logo. When I search for Windows programs at GenSoftReviews, the site indicated that there are 337 Windows programs for genealogy. Microsoft allows vendors to add their programs to their ...

I admit, I really do want that Logo saying "Compatible with Windows 7" for Behold. Why? Well for one thing, there are very few genealogy programs (are there any?) that have it. The reason is probably that most genealogy programs are older, use legacy code, and just have too many non-standard hooks in them, making ...

One of the things I've been delaying is getting Behold the "Certified for Windows 7" logo. Way back in 2007, I was turned off from getting the Vista certification when they required a Verisign certificate. Later, once I resigned myself to them not backing down on that, I found out they want a Version 1.0 and not a beta version. But there was still something Behold was ...

I really wanted Behold to be able to get certified for the Windows Logo. I tried when Vista came around. But Microsoft frustrated me in my attempt. I've been thinking about trying again for Windows 7. But I encountered a very eye-opening post about it at Successful Software, a blog by Andy Brice that I follow. Andy writes why he won't be bothering ...

... to be a Microsoft Partner, so I could apply for the Certified for Windows Vista Logo. I needed a company name, so my company is now: LKessler.com. The Vista Logo Program has a 25 page document with all the requirements I'll have to make sure Behold can meet. A second, 34 page document lists the steps of the 32 tests that Behold ...

... System calls such as associating file suffixes work. And there are still some Vista Logo Program requirements I'll have to make changes for. But the one thing that doesn't work is the help file. The old Windows help format has been dropped from Vista in favor of the Compiled HTML format (or CHM). There are programs available that will allow you to read the old Windows ...