Microsoft Certifies BarTender as Windows Vista Compatible

Nearly half a year has gone by since Seagull announced that BarTender v7.75 (service release 2, released in January) had been modified, tested, and approved for operation on Windows Vista. However, as explained in the associated Vista Seagull News Flash, that version had been self-certified by Seagull.

And now...

BarTender version 8.01 (service release 2) has been certified by Microsoft as Vista compatible!

Free Updates for all users of BarTender 8.0 and Higher
Users of version 7.7x (versions 7.70 through 7.75) can still get Vista compatibility by updating their software to v7.75 SR2 for free from our Service Release web page. However, only users of BarTender 8.0 or higher can update for free to the version of BarTender with Microsoft-certified Vista compatibility.

http://www.seagullscientific.com/aspx/service_releases.aspx

Beware of Misleading Certification Claims!!!
Some people have been confused by the recently published claim by a well-known software company that their software is

"...now certified compatible for use with all versions of the Microsoft Vista operating system."

"Who certified it?," some people wondered.

When we investigated the claim more closely on their web site, we found no mention of "Microsoft certification" and no readily apparent effort to clarify the ambiguity. Because we feel that there is an important distinction between self-certification and Microsoft-certification, we went out of our way in January to be as clear as possible about the status of our software. (You can read our previous Vista compatibility statement for yourself.)