Application Compatibility

With every new version of Windows, there is a huge effort to make sure that applications that worked on the previous version continue to work as expected. For this episode, I've invited Chris Jackson (also known as the "App Compat Guy") to join me and share some details on not only what…

Join Sukhvinder Singh Gulati, Sr. Lead Program Manager, for a first look at Microsoft's newest unified communications solutions. Sukhvinder will discuss products like Office Communications Server 2007, Office Communicator 2007, Office Live Meeting 2007, Exchange Server 2007 Unified Messaging,…

The guys at Cakewalk are passionate about music and providing the technology that enables audio enthusiasts & professionals to create great music. Noel Borthwick, Cakewalk CTO and Carl Jacobson, Woldwide Marketing Director, spend some time with Inside Out talking about their lessons learned as…

In this video, we sit down (well, stand up actually) with Chris Jackson and Gov Maharaj to chat about debugging application compatibility issues (and some of the things Microsoft has done to mitigate typical app compat issues we've run into). Hopefully we'll get a follow-up video with Gov to talk…

In this video, we chat with Robert Flaming about application compatibility issues around Windows Installer for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Mark Taylor, from our first Application Compatibility video, sits in as well to fire off some important questions (well, questions that are…

In this video, our good friend Jason Olson chats with Maarten Van De Bospoort, Mark Taylor, and Pat Altimore about Windows Server 2008 Application Compatibility. We discuss a bunch of topics in this video that are very pertinent to the topic of Application Compatibility on Windows Server…

Time and time again, I've encountered online arguments in which Geek A is telling Geek B that Company C does a poor job of maintaining backward compatibility. In these cases, I'm never quite sure what it is that Geek A means. Does Geek A have any idea how difficult it is to maintain app…

Vineet Sarda, Compatibility Consultant, describes the basic impacts of session 0 isolation of services in Windows Vista. This demonstration shows some of the Changes that have been Made for Session 0 and how Services that are running as “Interactive with Desktop” will show UI to the Logged on User

Microsoft is in the general purpose, mass market operating system business (client and server). You've heard of the client operating systems which fall under the Windows brand. You know of Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Vista. Many of you have written Windows applications that you expect…

As operating systems evolve so too must the applications that run on them, but at the same time, the new OS must support the applications that ran well on previous versions. If you're a developer, then you know the drill: You get your app to run on OS A, then we come up with OS B and you need to do…