The App Compat Guy

I was reading through some documentation on Sysinternals Process Explorer the other day, and one bit that caught my attention was some detail on the .NET tab. So, I pulled up my trusty managed StockViewer application, and went to go and look at that tab...

There are a number of efforts going on to help organize application compatibility for Windows 7, in or ongoing effort to improve in this space. Now, the technical information remains fairly stable, but there are a number of different ways to organize...

A little while back, those of us who explain application compatibility for a living and try to help people get their arms around it ran up against those who implement it in the product on the scale of … the whole earth. Those of us who explain things...

My job takes me around the world talking to both Developers and IT Professionals in order to resolve compatibility bugs with Windows 7 and Windows Vista. But you know what, I’m just one guy – so chances are I’m probably not going to have a chance to look...

Well, now that we have shipped Windows 7, and General Availability (GA) is right around the corner, I wanted to spend a brief bit of time taking a look at how our landscape will be changing for the RTM release. First, the big question that everyone is...