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We shipped ACT 5.5 back in April 2009, several months before we shipped Windows 7. Helpfully (I guess) we decided to label it Windows 7 RC in the UI so you could specifically track your testing against the release candidate. We had the idea that we could
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Hooray – I can stop pasting this link into emails! The Windows 7 Compatibility Center is now live.
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I’ve run into this exact same problem 3 times now in one week, so I figure that probably doesn’t bode well and I should attempt to do something about it. With 3 different pieces of software (one of them ours), the remote control functionality is imperfectly
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Ah, Karma, you rise up at the least convenient times. (This blog post is not meant to imply a belief in preordained futures, divine intervention, or the existence of the Perfectly Normal Beast.) Yesterday, I had somebody ask me not to speak about something
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Date: Thursday, September 24 Time: 9:00am Pacific Time https://ms.istreamplanet.com/springboard The reviews on Windows 7 have been really great so far, but you obviously can’t start using it if, after installing it, all of the stuff you need
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There is a huge amount of excitement about Windows 7, and people are looking to get moving with app compat immediately so they can start deploying Windows 7 right away! In the enterprise, however, there are a number of risk mitigation strategies that
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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
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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
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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
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I had a question come up in response to another post : I also have another side effect from this change. I have a process that tracks processes via JobObjects. With Vista I had to add a Manifest file to all my processes so PCA would not track
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If you right click on an executable in Windows Vista, you’ll find a Compatibility Tab, where you can set compatibility modes (layers) for that executable file. These compatibility layers are collections of shims and loader flags (depending on whether
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A few weeks ago, I sat down with Wayne Applehans to record a session for our TechNet IT Managers “The Big Show” – it’s posted here: http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/itmanagement/default.aspx Here is the transcript, if you prefer to read rather than
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I have had the Stock Viewer Shim Demo application available for over a year now, and I'm delighted at how much impact it has had. I see people using this all the time! But previously it was available only in English. Well, no more - it has now been (mostly)
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I have an ongoing conversation with a customer whose application is now popping up a Program Compatibility Assistant dialog box, where it didn’t used to before (on either Windows Vista or Windows 7 beta). What’s going on? Well, when I cracked the resources
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This Thursday, June 18, 2009, my friend Mark is hosting a virtual roundtable on Windows 7 Application Compatibility. Alas, they didn’t think to check my schedule, and I have a customer commitment this week (and I do not ever turn my back on a customer)
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