Recently helping with Windows 7 migrations, I've taken a look at "XP Mode" in Windows 7. It was hyped up by everybody as offering backwards compatibility in Windows 7. Much to my surprise when I got ...

Microsoft Windows’ biggest strength is that it works with so much hardware and software, both old and new. Unfortunately, that’s also its biggest weakness. With each new version of Windows, Microsoft ...

The backwards compatibility of new operating systems has been a constant thorn in Microsoft's side. With Vista, the compatibility problems at launch were so great it never really stood a chance of ...

I'm thinking of installing the Windows 7 public RC build 7100 on my old Mac Pro (using Boot Camp) once my new Mac Pro arrives, but have a few questions. I'm primarily going to be doing this to test my ...

I seem to remember a year ago, I said that if I were to design Windows 7 it would have built-in virtualization to provide perfect Windows XP compatibility. Guess what? It will. It's not often that my ...

This looks to be very interesting. Paul Thurrott and Rafael Rivera are revealing information on what has been called a ““secret feature†of Windows 7 that is due to be announced officially when ...

If the imminent end-of-support deadline for Windows XP has finally spurred you to make the update to Windows 8, you might be concerned about whether you’ll still be able to run your old programs. And ...

When Windows 10 went out of support last month, roughly ten years after release, many were confused about whether to upgrade or keep running their existing iteration. Experts who recommended upgrading ...

Can anyone solve this puzzle? <BR><BR>I've recently made a clean install (no upgrade) of Win XP on my machine... evrything looks great, everything works... well, not everything, any heavy or ...