Windows 7 Beta Critical to Compatibility
In another example of the fact that Windows 7 will be everything that Windows Vista was not, Microsoft indicated a strong commitment to ensure a high level of compatibility for the next iteration of the Windows client from the get go.
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30.5.2008 IE8 compatibility and reliability update for Windows 7 beta
Microsoft has released an update for Internext Explorer build 8.0.7000.0, fixing many bugs that were fixed with the release of IE8 RC1 for Vista and XP.
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25.2.2009 More Application Compatibility Resources for Windows 7
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.
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14.9.2009 More Windows 7 Compatibility Program Details
There are only two weeks left until the latest operating system from Microsoft becomes available on the market, and the Redmond-based company has just unveiled some details on the Windows 7 compatibility programs it is running.
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2.10.2009 How To Manage Windows Vista Application Compatibility
Migrating to Vista means big changes in application support. Will your applications work in Vista? Here are some strategies and tools to mitigate the impact of moving to the new OS.
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17.4.2007 Introducing the Windows Vista Compatibility Center
At the Worldwide Partner Conference 2008 on July 8, in Huston, Texas, Brad Brooks, corporate vice president, Windows Consumer Product Marketing, announced that Microsoft was going to go live with the Windows Vista Compatibility Center.
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9.7.2008 How to check software or hardware for Windows 7 compatibility
Microsoft has put up an extremely useful site that will allow you to check your software and hardware for Windows 7 compatibility.
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27.10.2009 Free Online Windows 7 Compatibility Technical Support
Having learned the incompatibility lesson the hard way with Windows Vista, Microsoft is pouring a consistent amount of efforts into ensuring that the next iteration of the Windows client will work smoothly from the get go with as many applications as possible.
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15.6.2009 A Software Compatibility List for Microsoft Windows Vista RC 1
Iexbeta has a nic Wiki page with a huge list of software and its compatibility with Windows Vista.
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29.9.2006 Vista Compatibility: What? When? Where?
Microsoft is launching a Windows Vista compatibility center in beta? Seventeen months after Vista shipped everywhere?
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8.7.2008 Microsoft Booed Over Backwards Compatibility
Having numerous advantages over other consoles, one of the most important being the backwards compatibility, Xbox 360 has all the cards to become the most popular gaming platform in the world.
But since good things don?t last forever, Microsoft is about to commit a grave error and cancel their biggest advantage.
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2.6.2006 MS Adds Vista Compatibility to Zune
Microsoft issued its second firmware update for its Zune music device on Tuesday, offering stability and performance improvements.
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21.12.2006 Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Pack
Windows Vista Compatibility, Performance and Reliability Packs – SP1 Preview - Microsoft offers fresh Vista updates to testers.
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31.7.2007 Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update
About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available on Automatic Updates.
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24.10.2007 Vista SP1 Has Driver Compatibility Problems? Do Tell!
Ever since February 4, 2008, the day Windows Vista Service Pack 1 and Windows Server 2008 were released to manufacturing, Microsoft made a move indicating that it was not entirely comfortable to release Vista SP1.
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4.3.2008 IE8 RTW Compatibility View Design
The Beta version of Internet Explorer 8 shipped with a big Emulate IE7 button next to the Home button on the Command Bar.
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22.6.2009 Vista Compatibility and Reliability Update Available, Adjacent to SP1
Even though SP1 for Windows Vista was released to manufacturing in February 2008, and the gold bits of the service pack began being available to the general public in March, Microsoft is still issuing updates for the RTM version of its latest Windows client.
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22.5.2008 Microsoft Recalls Xbox 360 Backward Compatibility Update
A new update for Microsoft's growing list of Xbox games that are compatible with the new Xbox 360 was released on December 8th, but the update has already been removed from official servers following compatibility issues discovered with games already covered in the original backward-compatible roster.
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11.12.2005 Vista SP1 Application Compatibility Update Fixes Black Screens of Death
With the release of the gold version of Service Pack 1, but also with the maturing of the software and hardware environment orbiting around the Windows client, Windows Vista's compatibility level has continually increased.
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14.8.2008 Download Free Vista and XP SP3 via IE App Compatibility VPC Images
Since 2007, Microsoft has been offering free copies of Windows XP and Windows Vista for download, in order to make up for a handicap specific to the Windows client, namely the fact that two different versions of Internet Explorer cannot be installed and run simultaneously on the same operating system.
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30.12.2008 Compatibility Issues When Surfing in IE7? Use User Agent String Utility to Spoof or Simulate as IE6
Although almost all websites has supported Internet Explorer 7 (IE7), the latest generation of popular web browser from Microsoft, but there are still some very few Internet sites that are still not updating the web server configuration for Internet Explorer 7 compatibility, and are not accessible by IE7 users and blocked the Internet surfers from viewing the web pages properly when using IE 7.
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21.11.2006 Activate Windows 7 Pre-Beta 6801 with Vista Beta or RC Product Key without Crack
Already download and install Windows 7 Pre-Beta build 6801? You probably have to leave the product key field blank during installation in order to complete the setup of Windows 7.
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1.11.2008 Windows 7 RC Brings Windows XP Mode Beta and Windows Virtual PC Beta
The Release Candidate of Windows 7 will bring with it the first Beta development milestones for Windows XP Mode and Windows Virtual PC.
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29.4.2009 Microsoft Office 2010 Beta 2 Leaks, Public Beta Expected in November
After Microsoft announced yesterday that Visual Studio 2010 Beta 2 will be sent to testers this week, more exciting news comes from the Office 2010 section.
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21.10.2009 Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2, .NET Framework 3.5 Beta 2
Visual Studio 2008 is the next generation development tool for Windows Vista, the 2007 Office system, and the Web. The Beta 2 release includes most of the products found in the Visual Studio product line. MSDN Subscribers can also download these files from
MSDN Subscriber Downloads. Thanks to pacpis for this news.
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27.7.2007 Can we have a Windows 7 beta 2 please?
I’ve been running Windows 7 beta 1 for now eight weeks and I’ve put this beta thorough a serious workout.
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21.2.2009 Windows Defender Beta 2
Overview
This release includes enhanced features that reflect ongoing input from customers, as well as Microsoft?s growing understanding of the spyware landscape.
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14.2.2006 Windows VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta
PROnetworks announced that VistaBootPRO 2.0 Beta, the newest version of the original program developed by the PROnetworks Betas Team and the Beta Testing Forum, is now available for download. This is an update to the original VistaBootPRO 1.0 Beta. There are lots of new features and improved GUI interface. Full support for Windows Vista Beta 2 and Build 5456 has been added as well.
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15.7.2006 Safari 3.0.4 Beta for Windows
Experience the web, Apple style, with Safari: the fastest, easiest-to-use web browser in the world. With its simple, elegant interface, Safari gets out of your way and lets you enjoy the web, up to 2 times faster than Internet Explorer.
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16.11.2007 Windows 7 Beta 1 Just Around the Corner?
Microsoft has not only wrapped up the first Beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 and Windows Server 2008 SP2, but is also close to releasing the first Beta of Windows 7.
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4.12.2008Vista Compatibility: What? When? Where?
Am I missing something? Microsoft is launching a Windows Vista compatibility center in beta? Seventeen months after Vista shipped everywhere? Oh,
yeah, and the Windows Vista Compatibility Center is one of the big announcements from Microsoft's Worldwide Partner Conference in Houston.
Isn't this the kind of thing you do before an operating system ships? Release compatibility tools for real, not in beta?
I planned to
write about what's in the beta. But I went to the Windows Vista Compatibility Center and all I got was this lousy screenshot. That sounds like a
T-Shirt slogan, doesn't it? There's nothing there. Poof. Pure vaporware.
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09.07.2008Microsoft release Windows 7 application compatibility update
Following on from the Internet Explorer 8 update that Microsoft released for Windows 7 Beta a day ago, another update has been released targeting
application compatibility. Judging by these two updates released, Microsoft is progressing nicely, and the most recent update targets mainly games
that did not run before hand, or had to be opened via compatibility-mode. Interestingly, Microsoft didn't state which applications were targeted
in this update, but it is of no doubt that users will find out soon enough. If you're currently having problems with gaming, or have had problems
with it, in the Windows 7 Beta, install these updates and post in the comments to show which games now work, or still don't.
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27.02.2009Dell touts Windows 7 Beta experience
According to a blog entry in Dell's website, Dell has tested hundreds of Dell systems with Windows 7 Beta and has found the results to be
promising. Dell notes that the following results were observed when testing Windows 7 Beta on Dell PCs. Noticeable improvements in boot to desktop
times (versus Vista) in many systemsAlmost all existing Vista drivers are compatibleGood Vista Application compatibility (including the IE 8
compatibility mode)Transcoding (ripping) media files is faster than VistaDell also plans to test the later builds of Windows 7 and share the
experiences with users.
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05.04.2009Compatibility View Improvements to come in IE8
The next public update of IE8 (for Windows Vista- and Windows XP-based operating systems as well as the Windows 7 Beta) includes improvements to
Compatibility View that help end-users when they visit web sites that are not yet ready for IE8s new, more standards-compliant defaults. This blog
post describes the technical background and how this new functionality works...
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04.12.2008Beta Patches Hint at Vista SP1 Features
Microsoft has released to
Windows Server 2008 beta
testers two new hot-fix packs
for Windows Vista, which
improve performance and
reliability, along with the
operating system's
compatibility with drivers and
hardware. The 12MB worth of
fixes are expected to make
their way into Vista Service
Pack 1 later this year...
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30.07.2007Windows 7: Application Compatibility Testing -- International
In the previous blog post " Application Compatibility Testing for Windows 7 " we talked about the importance of Application Compatibility and
work we are doing to engineer this in Windows 7. In this post we will examine the challenge that emerges as we consider the world wide audience that
Windows serves.
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09.03.2009Internet Explorer Application Compatibility
The Internet Explorer Application Compatibility article describes in detail the application compatibility events that are logged by Windows Internet
Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7. These events are used by the Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) to help customers understand their
application compatibility situation by identifying which applications are compatible with Internet Explorer 8 and Internet Explorer 7 and which
require further testing. This article describes the application compatibility events, when the events are triggered, and workarounds to fix the
application compatibility issues.
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04.09.2008Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 (for Windows 7 RC and Windows Vista)
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.5 helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by identifying which
applications are compatible with the Windows 7 RC and Windows Vista® operating system and which require further testing. ACT helps customers lower
their costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Windows more quickly.
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04.04.2009Windows 7 SP1 details begin to surface
With Windows 7 out the door we already know Microsoft immediately starts work on the servicing of Windows 7. Engineers are now hard at work at
creating hot fixes for application compatibility and ironing out any bug reports they receive. The same process occurs for every version of Windows
once it has been classed released to manufacturing (RTM). Notorious for leaking Windows 7 builds during the beta phase, Wzor has provided some early
information on the Windows 7 SP1 beta. According to Wzor a beta of Windows 7 SP1 will be released in January 2010 and the schedule is two beta
releases and two release candidate releases.
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02.11.2009Windows 7: Application Compatibility Testing -- Overview
Steven Sinofsky: Delivering a new release of Windows includes a major effort to insure that applications continue to function as well on the new
release as they have on the previous release. At the PDC we talked about some of the new areas of Windows Vista that reduced this level of
compatibility, such as changes we made around the OS security model. With Windows 7 we renewed our engineering efforts to maintain compatibility. As
with device testing, compatibility testing is an effort that spans the entire engineering organization, though we also have a group that is dedicated
to this effort. This post was authored by a set of folks and coordinated by Grant George, the corporate vice president for testing in the Windows
Experience team.
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03.03.2009Nvidia ForceWare 96.33 For
Windows Vista RC1 now
available
NVIDIA has released the
following Beta drivers for use
with Windows Vista RC1 that
will enable you to test the
basic features and
capabilities of the new
operating system.
Release Highlights:
* These drivers are only
compatible with Windows Vista
RC1 build
5600.16384.060829-2230 and
higher, and should not be used
with other versions of Windows
Vista.
* Includes the
new NVIDIA Control Panel.
Please visit the NVIDIA
Control Panel website for more
information.
*
Includes OpenGL driver for
compatibility testing.
* Improved application
compatibility and
performance.
* For a
full list of fixes issues,
please view the Release Notes...
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04.09.2006Compatibility, Reliability, and Stability of Vista Update
About 2 months ago Microsoft released a couple of hotfixes that improved the stability and reliability of Windows Vista, these were not made available
on Automatic Updates. That aside, Microsoft has released an update to the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista fix that
further improves the reliability of your system.
The original fix improved annoyances such as file copy calculation & speed from within
windows to other (local or network) drives.
This update improves the compatibility, reliability, and stability of Windows Vista. This
update includes the following improvements ->
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24.10.2007Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.0
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) 5.0 helps customers understand their application compatibility situation by identifying which
applications are compatible with the Microsoft® Windows Vista® operating system and which require further testing. ACT helps customers lower their
costs for application compatibility testing, prioritize their applications, and deploy Windows Vista more quickly.
You can use
the ACT features to:
- Verify an application's compatibility with a new version of the Windows operating system, or a Windows
Update, including determining your risk assessment.
- Become involved in the ACT Community, including sharing your risk assessment with
other ACT users.
- Test your Web applications and Web sites for compatibility with new releases and security updates to the Windows®
Internet Explorer® Internet browser.
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13.11.2007Compatibility View List and IE8 RTW
Scott Dickens: Ive blogged about the
Compatibility View features included in Internet
Explorer 8 a
few times during the Beta 2 and
Release Candidate milestones. Now that Internet
Explorer 8 has released, I wanted to follow-up with a quick post highlighting the content thats been created on MSDN regarding the Compatibility View
List...
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01.04.2009Windows 7 Compatibility Issues May Mar Enterprise Adoption
eWEEK Labs' early tests of Windows 7 RC 1 show that the operating system installs and runs quickly and efficiently; is highly polished for this stage
of development; already supports a wide array of hardware; and is obviously rich with security, connectivity and usability features when compared with
either Windows Vista or XP. However, Microsoft's method for dealing with application compatibility--Windows XP Mode for Windows 7, or XPM--leaves
something to be desired.
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01.05.2009Microsoft Vista SP2 beta: Nothing new has been added (yet)
If you install the beta of Windows Vista Service Pack 2 (SP2) expecting to see visible changes to your version of Vista, you'll be sorely
disappointed. At least in this initial beta, all the changes are under the hood, and even they are far from earth-shaking. Microsoft says that it has
fixed compatibility problems with the third-party Spy Sweeper and ZoneAlarm security applications, enhanced hardware support for Direct X, improved
Wi-Fi connections after a system resumes from sleep, improved Windows Search, added support for the newest Bluetooth specification (2.1) and rolled up
all previous Vista updates.
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09.12.2008Vista Gets New App
Compatibility Tool
With any major new Windows
release such as Vista,
application compatibility
becomes a critical concern for
businesses and individuals
considering an upgrade. No
matter how much Microsoft
promotes the new version,
users aren't going to make
the switch unless their
applications continue to
function seamlessly...
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18.04.2006Internet Explorer Application Compatibility VPC Image (Updated for IE8 Beta 1)
This download is a VPC hard disk image containing a pre-activated Windows XP SP2 or Windows Vista, and IE6, IE7 or IE8.
This VPC
image will expire on July 3, 2008.
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06.03.2008Vista Compatibility Center up and running
Ina Fried: I've certainly
given them a hard time about it, so it's only fair to point out that as of Friday
morning,
Microsoft's Vista Compatibility Center Web site is
now live.
The site, in beta form,
lists about 9,000 hardware and software products and their Vista readiness. Microsoft
had planned on launching it on Tuesday, but encountered some unspecified issues.
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11.07.2008Windows Live Essentials Beta
Released
Microsoft finally released
today a beta version of its
Windows Live Essentials
service to all beta-testers
that subscribed to the beta
program.
The
point of Windows Live
Essentials is quite simple:
provide a simple way for users
to use the most important
Windows Live Services: Windows
Live Messenger, Windows Live
Mail desktop, Windows Live
Mail, Windows Live Spaces and
Windows Live Dashboard being
the included products as of
yet.
The website
is only available to people
using Internet Explorer 6, so
nothing has changed yet on
compatibility since the
preview, though it is said
that each release will bring
improvements to operating
system, language and web
browser support.
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