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 ...

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 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 released a whitepaper to help enterprises fix compatibility issues between their custom applications and Windows 7. Small compatibility fixes are known as shims. But most ...

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 ...

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 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 ...