Days before Windows 7 is set to hit general availability, Microsoft has officially announced the release of two Windows 7 compatibility tools over at Microsoft.com ...

Microsoft unveiled the details of the Windows 7 logo program today. The requirements for earning the Windows 7 compatibility label are stricter this time around–partially to boost support and ...

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 ...

Windows 7 has been a tremendous success thus far–both as a standalone or upgrade operating system, as well as in driving PC sales. However, the fact remains that there are tens of thousands of small ...

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 ...

Sure, Windows 7 isn’t expected to RTM until sometime around August, but that doesn’t mean Microsoft’s hardware and software partners aren’t already hard at work. Currently they’re submitting their ...

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 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 ...

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 ...