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 ...

Microsoft this week released a whitepaper to help enterprises fix compatibility issues between their custom applications and Windows 7. Small compatibility fixes are known as shims. But most ...

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 ...

How Windows 7's rock star status is helping to erode barriers like pesky software incompatibilities to entry in the corporate world Last week I noted how frustrated I was to discover that VMware ...

Early Windows had big gaps. These four open-source apps stepped in and solved problems Microsoft left unsolved.