Microsoft’s attempts to ensure better application compatibility for Windows 7 than its immediate predecessor Windows Vista had at launch appear to have borne fruit. While app compatibility remains top ...

Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5 — Inventory, assess, and prepare applications for Windows 7 and Windows Vista deployment projects. Windows 7 Application Quality Cookbook — Originally ...

Mitch Tulloch is a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional and lead author of the Windows 7 Resource Kit from Microsoft Press. You can follow him on Twitter at ...

Microsoft this week released the first update for Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 on Windows Update. The update resolves problems when trying to install or run certain legacy games or ...

Recently helping with Windows 7 migrations, I've taken a look at "XP Mode" in Windows 7. It was hyped up by everybody as offering backwards compatibility in Windows 7. Much to my surprise when I got ...

While Microsoft officials have said that applications that work with Vista should work with Windows 7, there are exceptions. The 45-page "="">" (Version 0.9 of which Microsoft released for download on ...

Microsoft Corp. next month plans to release a tool kit to help business users begin testing their existing applications for compatibility with Windows 7. In a virtual roundtable that Microsoft hosted ...

Microsoft this week announced that an application compatibility guarantee it gave to enterprises migrating from Windows 7 to Windows 10 has gone global. The “Desktop App Assure” program, which ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. One reason for Windows Vista's poor reception was the way in which Microsoft approached backwards ...