Quote: "The principal user experience problem with LUA’s is that when a consumer wants to download and install a game demo off the Internet, they must first click past the IE warning dialogs, and then respond to the security elevation dialog Vista pops up requiring an admin account name and password to enable the software installation."
I seriously hope this can be turned off. I'm desperate to hear at least one good thing about Vista (other than DX10 stuff), but thus far I'm coming up very, very dry.
Quote: "The intrusive dialogs are also oddly pointless, because Vista's frequent warning dialogs do nothing to differentiate legitimate commercial software from known hazardous products, so consumers will still mistakenly install malware."
Great, so the "heightened security" that Vista allegedly provides is actually a bottleneck for users and developers alike? Wonderful.
Quote: "One of the pieces of information a game has to supply to register with Game Explorer is a ESRB rating. Games that do not supply a rating will be subject to the “Not Rated” parental control setting. Since games are “trusted” to supply accurate ratings information, one might expect that they are also trusted to handle parental messaging themselves. Not so, any game that registers with Game Explorer becomes “subject” to Vista parental controls which will proceed to block the game from running and offer to delete the link to the game if you try to run it from anywhere on the system other than within the Game Explorer."
Well, so much for any of us making profitable games. Does this mean the glory days of the indie community are at an end?
Quote: "Interestingly, the obscure warning dialog that Vista presents offering to delete your game icon when you try to launch it is not the same warning Microsoft makes for the games they supply to the Game Explorer. So although we filed this problem as a bug during the Vista Beta, the only games Microsoft “fixed” it for were their own."
I've been saying it for years, and everyone said I was mad... Microsoft is planning to one day be the only game dev/ distribution company on the block.
Quote: "Since the Game Explorer is also inexplicably hard coded into Vista and “secured” from any modification, nobody can presumably fix its problems or otherwise augment it other than Microsoft. Considering the effort Microsoft must have invested in making the Game Explorer this onerous and immutable, it seems plausible that it was intended as a place holder for a subsequent game service offering from Microsoft."
You know how I'm always ranting and raving about corporate greed? Well guys... this is why.
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