Inside The New Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit
White Papers There are some major changes in Windows Vista that could affect application compatibility. Ensuring application compatibility was an important focus during the development of Windows Vista. By testing thousands of applications with each build and...
[December 5, 2006, 23:00]
Windows XP Software Compatibility
News Microsoft's Quick Fix utility (QFixApp) is a small utility available as part of the Application Compatibility Toolkit for Windows XP and Windows Server 2003. QFixApp acts as an interface to Windows XP's application compatibility database.
[January 29, 2003, 13:50]
Management Tool Keeps Linux Systems In Tune
News Instead of focusing on component compatibility, package updates and patches for existing systems, like Aduva does, Tivoli is ex tending its traditional systems management software to run on Linux. Aduva includes a patch to the knowledge base only...
[September 28, 2001, 10:43]
Preparing For A WinNT To Win2K Upgrade
News Joe wisely decided to set up a test network to evaluate application compatibility, but having little experience in this area, he needed some help. To obtain the proper information on application compatibility, Coverstone recommended setting up a...
[March 22, 2002, 16:30]
Writing Cross-platform DHTML
News Second, where compatibility is not possible, a properly written Web app shouldn't crash but should fail gradually, preserving as much function as possible. First, HTML code, and DHTML code in particular, must function consistently on multiple Web...
[February 16, 2003, 21:01]
IPhone Gets NetSuite CRM And ERP Apps
News Although the iPhone is yet to appear outside the US, it is expected to arrive within a few months in the UK and NetSuite has confirmed that UK customers will be able to take advantage of the compatibility.
[July 16, 2007, 15:25]
Tech Reasons Not To Upgrade To XP
News Even if you have a beefy system with plenty of processing power, memory, and disk space, there's still a chance that your system may not be capable of running Windows XP unless each of the system's components is listed on the Hardware...
[September 10, 2002, 9:01]
Top 10 Reasons To Migrate To .Net
News COM promised to have new versions maintain backwards compatibility with old versions, but developers were free to break this compatibility, and sometimes did. You get full Intellisense and function completion help.
[November 19, 2002, 11:50]
LOB Application Compatibility: Using Microsoft IT's LOB Application Compatibility Testing Processes
White Papers Application compatibility is a concern any time an organization deploys new software to an existing computer environment. Whether the organization is deploying a new operating system or a new Web browser, it must ensure that the applications that...
[May 7, 2008, 0:00]
Microsoft Roadmap Charts Odd Detours
News There isn't that need for broad application compatibility," he said. A high-tech sewing machine and modern slot machines that run a slimmed-down version of Windows XP were among the products Microsoft cited during a presentation Friday on the its...
[October 27, 2003, 9:55]
Don't Kill The Floppy Yet
News Some stalwarts argued that backward compatibility, ERD issues, and the simple fact that floppies can fit into your shirt pocket are reason enough to keep grandpa out of the home for a while. Floppies aren't ready to die yet because no technology...
[March 18, 2003, 12:51]
Microsoft's Message: NT 5.0 Still Not Ready For Prime Time
News Internal test rates surpass those achieved by NT 4.0 in the areas of application and hardware compatibility and stress-test levels. Microsoft tested Beta 2 most stringently on five laptop and a few key desktop models, so many machines may not...
[August 19, 1998, 9:33]
XP's Smart Display Enables Double Vision
News All PCs perform the same function. And without offering concurrent usage, Microsoft could unleash a tidal wave of domestic nitpicking over who has application primacy -- mum, dad or the kids -- at any given moment.
[May 8, 2003, 13:39]
