Michael

Posted on 7/23/09

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I don't know if this is the right place, but I'd like to
hear from teachers who have experience with educational
software. I'm a programmer writing a new educational
software suite for grades K-5. I do have some teaching
experience at the high school level, and another on our team
is a special education specialist.

Our suite consists of a teacher's control panel, where the
teacher can decide what content each student receives (among
other things), 5 games the students can pick from, as well
as a "front end" where the student logs in and picks a game,
and a server program, which stores all of the student
progress data.

The suite runs very well on XP machines. But on Windows
Vista, when the "front end" is ran, a warning from Vista
appears, saying the publisher cannot be identified. It
appears when the front end is run, but the warning is harmless.

We want to sell our software, as it is large, comprehensive,
easy to use, and everyone who has used it likes it. But as
I haven't been able to get rid of the warning message, I
wonder if schools who use Vista would decide not to purchase
it because of the warning message.

If anyone here uses Vista on a daily basis, would you be put
off by a program that makes a warning message like that appear?

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