<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr">On Tue, 11 Dec 2018 at 07:01, Philip Taylor <<a href="mailto:P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk">P.Taylor@rhul.ac.uk</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div class="gmail-m_-5014897716859084211moz-cite-prefix">Arthur Reutenauer wrote:<br>
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<pre>On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:34:52AM +0000, Philip Taylor wrote:
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<pre> I had already consulted those guidelines
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<pre> Have you? </pre>
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Yes, I have already stated that, Mr vice-President. Would you like
me to state it under oath ?<br>
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<pre>A subsection entitled “The app certification process”
(<a class="gmail-m_-5014897716859084211moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/publish/the-app-certification-process" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/publish/the-app-certification-process</a>)
contains amongst others
Certification
The second and third section link to <a class="gmail-m_-5014897716859084211moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/debug-test-perf/windows-app-certification-kit" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/windows/uwp/debug-test-perf/windows-app-certification-kit</a>
and <a class="gmail-m_-5014897716859084211moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/legal/windows/agreements/store-policies" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/legal/windows/agreements/store-policies</a>
respectively. Did you read those pages?</pre>
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All but
<a class="gmail-m_-5014897716859084211moz-txt-link-freetext" href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/legal/windows/agreements/store-policies" target="_blank">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-gb/legal/windows/agreements/store-policies</a>,
since I was searching for <i>technical</i> guidelines rather than
policy guidelines. Having now read the last of these, I <i>still</i>
find nothing technical. As I wrote earlier, if you can point me at
the <i>technical</i> elements of the guidelines I will be happy to
follow them up. Just in case you are unclear what I mean by
technical, I am looking for guidelines along the lines of the
following :<br>
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<li>For a program to be accepted by the Microsoft Store, it must</li>
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<li>Not make any use of CMD.exe, PowerShell, or any other
command-line user interface that allows a user to run an
arbitrary program rather than make a selection from a restricted
list of pre-approved programs.<br>
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<li><etc>.<br>
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<p></p></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Googling "site:<a href="http://docs.microsoft.com">docs.microsoft.com</a> S mode cmd.exe" found</div><div><a href="https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/windows-10-s-planning">https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-hardware/manufacture/desktop/windows-10-s-planning</a>.</div><div><br></div><div>This has a list of programs blocked in S-mode. There are documents that walk you thru the process of converting</div><div>a side installer to the Windows App Store, but there is no point trying to make an app that uses and banned programs.</div><div><br></div></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>George N. White III<br><br></div></div></div></div></div></div>