Only a logo for the compatibility of hardware and software - and not like Windows Vista for several different versions of operating system - Windows is getting 7th Microsoft has said in March at the opening of a certification labs in China (see "Windows 7 logo on PCs and software").

Under what conditions, equipment and software, the logo for Windows-7-preserved compatibility, has Microsoft just before the market launch of the operating system in Windows now outlined again. As Mark Relph, senior director of Windows Product Strategy Group, said, inter alia, the requirements were tightened somewhat: All applications and drivers for example, must be signed in order for customers with installations not presented again unnecessary inquiries received ( "software [...] the Windows Logo testing has not passed ...«).

Such a sticky label on the package, users may need to be sure that the product with every Windows 7 version running, it was the 32 - or 64-bit version. Crashes, blue screens or errors that affect the stability of the system, Microsoft wants to see no more. Test, test and test again so it is now called again for Windows developers.

Apart from a healthy product, but it should be easier for manufacturers and developers to come to a logo: According to Relph programmers are dealing with "less paperwork" than before, and the costs of participating in the program have been reduced.Microsoft partners get the operating system or later versions generally used to provide enough time to adapt their products to have. Over 6000 hardware and software products, the logo should have already received.