[casual_games] If Vista is going to be such a problem...

[Alex St. John]

During the break I promised to ask my QA guys to give me a report on the exact behavior of parental controls in the RTM version of Vista.  I have a couple interesting screenshots that I'm not sure will make it up in my mail but they show the error dialogs Vista throws when a user clicks a game that has had parental controls applied to it.  
   
  So IF a game is registered with the Vista game explorer and parental controls are enabled  to apply to that game Vista throws an error dialog that offers to delete the LINK to the game from the game explorer.  Interestingly Vista throws a different error for games parental controls apply to that are supplied with Vista by Microsoft.  The only substantial change in behavior between the beta and RTM was the change that prevented Microsoft supplied links from being deleted but continued to offer to delete Non-Microsoft game links.  I think it would be interesting to ask Microsoft why they presume to have the OS delete our game links when parental controls apply to them, but not their own.  
   
  Both error messages make no mention of parental controls being enabled as the reason the game link is broken which is certain to be very confusing to any consumers who encounter these errors.  
   
  -Alex

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