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["Rivera, Rafael" <rafael@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I'm new to the conversation, so I don't have quoted material -- apologies.

*Program Files\ hosting*
Starting with Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008, we have 
virtualization that silently takes over and redirects (for appcompat 
reasons) writes to the caller's virtual application store. With Windows 
XP and Windows Server 2003 fading away, is hosting in Program Files\ 
really a problem? I think we can safely assume that users with this type 
of virtualization turned off within the candidate OSes are super 
advanced/asking for trouble and therefore shouldn't be considered in the 
design process. It's impossible to please everyone.

*Directory structure*
I like Elizabeth's approach of dropping versions (e.g. 1.0, 1.1) into an 
authoritative <vendor>\<app> folder. I'd imagine this is neater, 
especially when dealing with faster updating applications (or lots of 
installed applications).

/rafael