After Extensive Testing, Seagull Formally Declares BarTender 9.2 Compatible with Windows 7

BarTender version 9.2 first shipped on October 19th, 2009. In addition to the extensive battery of tests required to confidently release numerous new features and companion applications, the entire application suite was stress-tested for more than three months on Windows 7. The last month of this testing was performed using a pre-release copy of Windows 7 identical to what Microsoft began shipping on October 22nd (just three days after the release of BarTender 9.2).

Formal Microsoft Certification Now Received!
Microsoft's formal certification, and the associated approval to use their Windows 7 logo (displayed to the left of this text) was received on November 6th, 2009

Compatible with 10 Years Worth of Windows Versions
The BarTender 9.2 Suite maintains backward compatibility with all flavors of Windows 2000, XP and Vista, including both 32-bit and 64-bit editions, as well as Windows Server 2003 and 2008.

More Details about our Testing
As with previous releases of BarTender, testing of version 9.2 relied heavily on advanced in-house testing technology and procedures Seagull Scientific has developed and refined since we launched our first Windows product in 1993.  In addition, a variety of Microsoft-specified tests had to be passed in order to receive Microsoft certification and their approval to use the Windows 7 logo.

Our team of Quality Assurance engineers extensively tested all components, including:

• The main BarTender program
• Seagull License Server
• Installer
• Activation Wizard
• Commander, Printer Maestro, Security Center, Librarian and the rest of the eight "Companion Applications."

A large battery of manually run and automated regression stress tests were performed, including:

• Design functionality
• Printing
• Performance
• Peak load handling
• Memory leakage
• Stability and consistency under regression
• Security access

Windows 7 Compatibility for Windows Printer Drivers
Although Seagull recently released Version 7.1.8 of our "Drivers by Seagull," this was just a general feature upgrade. Our printer drivers have been compatible with Windows 7 since version 7.1.2, which was released more than two years ago on July 27, 2007.