Why doesn’t Office-applications get focus when run from another application on Win 2008?

Question

I have some different COM-Interop examples that when run on Windows 2008 (Office 2007) always open minimized in the task bar.

On Windows 2003 or XP they open like I want them to.

Has there been any changes to how Windows deals with this? Or to Office?

I know that I can close windows with CTRL-SHIFT-ALT, and by that get them to start maximized next time, but for some dialogs this doesn’t work.

Is there any way to make them always open maximized or on top?

Any clues that could point me in the right direction would be helpful. I have tried with both our VB6 app and a test app in C#.