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 ...

Vista, of course, was plagued by application and hardware compatibility issues that led to the unfortunate formation of a "cartoon rain cloud" that seems to have followed Vista since its release. At ...

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 ...

One of the biggest issues holding people back from upgrading their (really) antiquated copies of Windows 7 is app compatibility. If you have some super-specific application that simply won’t (or can’t ...

https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Windows+7.html has the same core code as https://www.pcworld.com/tags/Microsoft+Windows+Vista.html, right? So application ...

Back in December I told you about Windows 7’s little-known application-compatibility troubleshooter, which I’d used to try to resolve a problem with https://www ...