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Now, the technical information remains fairly stable, but there are a number of different ways to organize that information based on the perspective with which you are approaching that problem.

In fact, that’s probably the hardest part of talking about application compatibility – it crosses pretty much every discipline in IT, from management down the individual contributor. Even within individual contributors, it’s divided between the IT Professional and the Developer audiences.

(As a side note, in nearly every audience I speak to where there are representatives of both disciplines, they tend to completely sort based on discipline. All of the IT Pros will sit on one side of the room, all of the developers sit on the other. You almost never find a situation where people are naturally distributed. And we wonder why communication between these teams, while critical, doesn’t happen as often as we would like – I know I am guilt of that myself!)

So, we’re trying to organize and sort the information and knowledge for you as best we can. Here are just a few ways we have organized things to help out:

Windows XP to Windows 7 Migration Guidance

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/ee150430.aspx – this is one way to map out information by the process itself. It’s fairly high level (no kernel debugging tips here) and more geared towards the IT Professional (hence the Technet home). Instead of a big list, there is a flowchart navigation system. Click on the stage in the flowchart you are sitting at, and it lists out resources, with pros and cons, of the tools which are there to help you through that state! Quite a clever navigation scheme.

Application Compatibility Factory

OK, this is one that’s confusing. I know I pick on folks in the marketing discipline from time to time, but that’s only because I think they can act in ways that are as unengineer-like as possible. Sometimes that’s good, sometimes that’s … confusing. This is one of those confusing times.

We took an existing program and brand – Application Compatibility Factory. The name made sense – it used a (predominantly offshore) factory model, optimized for churning through bulk. The program for Windows Vista consisted of around 6 global system integrators.

We then re-used the power of that brand on a whole new model. No, really! It doesn’t look anything like the old model – heck, it isn’t even a factory model, despite having the word Factory occupy 1/3 of the words in the name. No longer is ACF the “stroke a 7 figure check and make a big chunk of work disappear” – it’s now a program that delivers 1-week Proof of Concept engagements.