Rescue Me: Windows 7 to Improve on Vista Compatibility

For over a year now, the Microsoft mantra on Windows 7 has been very consistent: The OS will utilize the same software and hardware compatibility model of its predecessor, thus ensuring that customers won't have to go through another painful cycle of testing, worrying, and putting off deployments. Microsoft explained, again and again, that the technical underpinnings of the OS would be so similar to that of Windows Vista that no one would need to worry about compatibility this time around. What was making Windows 7 a major release, we were told, was the surface stuff, all the UI and user experience changes.

Well, hold on to your hats. It seems the Windows 7 compatibility story has yet to be told.

Last week, Microsoft finally admitted that the company has been secretly working to improve application compatibility in Windows 7. This change means that Windows 7 will actually outperform Vista from a compatibility perspective, giving Microsoft's customers yet another reason to skip Vista completely and move directly to 7. In fact, when you combine this fact with Windows 7's much speedier performance, lower system requirements, and usability enhancements, it's pretty clear that Vista will be the most quickly abandoned version of Windows since Windows Me.

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Hi,

Just installed Windows 7 Release 7057 last week. I must say it is much better than Vista. Some of the programs that did not wok very well in Vista work great in Windows 7. I have yet to find a program that will not work in Windows 7.

I have installed this version on an Acer Aspire 574 WLMi (laptop) with 2GB Ram, 7200 RPM WD 320GB drive. No compatibility problems and the included drivers work fine with my hardware. This laptop is 3 years old.

The activation worked fine when connecting to Microsoft and this version is supposed to be valid until 2010 (not sure about this, but it is what I read).

Boot up time is much faster - less than 90 seconds until it is usable.

If you use Bitdefender anti-virus, make sure you download the latest version, otherwise the program may stop running unexpectedly.

Google Chrome, Firefox work fine.

Gary

I have yet to find a program that will not work in Windows 7.

just curious, does Daemontools Lite work now under Win7? the Beta 1 release 7000 does not support it. Changing the compatibility mode does not help.

I have yet to find a program that will not work in Windows 7.

just curious, does Daemontools Lite work now under Win7? the Beta 1 release 7000 does not support it. Changing the compatibility mode does not help.

Hi,

Under Windows 7 Release 7057, it will not install, even if I ignore the incompatibility message.

Gary