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 Corp. will unveil an add-on to Windows 7 that lets users run applications designed for Windows XP in a virtual machine, the company confirmed Friday — the first time Microsoft has relied on ...

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 ...

Microsoft's Scott Woodgate offers up a few more details around the once hush-hush virtualization project within Windows 7 now known as XP Mode As we discussed earlier this week, Microsoft is going to ...

Microsoft will offer Windows 7’s ribbon-style application interface to Windows Vista users in an update this October, according to the company. As first reported by Long Zheng, the blogger who writes ...

My new favorite Windows app made my PC safer and more reliable - and it's free ...

The two companies will develop updates to the Eclipse IDE to incorporate features of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2. The intention, according to Microsoft, is to ensure that the "improved" ...