Cosmin Prund wrote: > If your end users are like mine, they're really not geeks, nor computer experts, and they probably never see an UAC prompt in normal usage.
This is right. They are in biology field and a even Crash Test Dummy can do better with a computer. Recently I had a dialog like: User: I can't save the files anymore. Me: Yes. Because your trial has ended. (there were lots of messages informing the user that the program switched from full working trial to Demo mode) User: Why? OR User: What will happen after the trial will end? Do I really have to buy the program? Me: ?!? (this is why I decided to decrease the trial from 30 days to only 5) OR Me: are your running the program in your personal computer? User: Yes. Me: are you running under an administrator account (do you have admin rights)? User: I don't know. Should I have? And I can write a book full with funny stuffs like this. Now, imagine how a user like this will react when Vista will pop up a message telling that the program X is asking for administrator rights and that it may be dangerous to give it admin rights. I agree with you that Vista is a step forward when is about protecting beginners against malware (even if it is small one). But it is also a big step backward for programmers. Seems like while Microsoft was too busy in its effort to protecting users, it forgot about the programmers. Cosmin Prund wrote: > I'd rather spend my time on developing new features for my applications (as > those bring me revenue) as opposed to writing compatibility code and making > sure my app works on Vista. Right again! The real question is how long it will take to appear enough knowledge and documentation for Delphi users, about Vista? By the way: Do you have a statistic about how many users are using now Vista? I am just curious. > Vista's UAC and Virtualization protects those users from viruses and > other types of malware because, basically nothing can write to the > Program Files folder UNLESS it prompts an UAC pop-up. Only Vista-aware > applications can prompt that pop-up, other applications would just use > Virtualization. So the virus or malware would simply modify an exe in a > virtualized Program Files folder in a sub-folder based on the name of > the virus. No harm done to the computer, since the virus would be the > only one that would access that virtualized folder - for everything else > running on the computer, the newly affected exe would be seen in its > original (unchanged) form. > > Now I'll be honost, Vista is giving me allot of trouble. I'd rather > spend my time on developing new features for my applications (as those > bring me revenue) as opposed to writing compatibility code and making > sure my app works on Vista. But at the end of the day I *know* Vista is > a good thing for average-Joe computer user, so I'll just write the code. > My XP users are routinely having problems because of viruses. I haven't > had a Vista problem yet! > > -- > Cosmin Prund > > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On >> Behalf Of CubicDesign >> Sent: 17 aprilie 2007 23:43 >> To: Borland's Delphi Discussion List >> Subject: Problems while creating/running apps for Vista >> >> Hi. >> >> I received lately a 'bug report' from a user who tried to run my >> program >> under Vista. >> It seems that it can't associate itself with some file types (I want >> > to > >> associate my program with '*.SEQ' files). >> >> >> It looks like there is a need for lot of changes and documentation >> before a Delphi (7) program will be ready for Vista. >> Also there are problems (because of the virtualization) while writing >> INI files. >> Vista pretends that allowed your application to write an INI file in >> the >> same folder but actually is lying. >> >> The new invention from Microsoft seems to be even worst than the last >> one (low priority user logon accounts). >> If you know some good documentation about Vista (but oriented t Delphi >> users) please let me know. >> >> >> >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] >> http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi >> > _______________________________________________ > Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] > http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi > > _______________________________________________ Delphi mailing list -> [email protected] http://www.elists.org/mailman/listinfo/delphi
