While Microsoft is making it difficult to run modern Windows on old hardware, the backward compatibility story of the software side can be a bit different as a fun experiment shows. Whether you like ...

Windows 7 takes a different approach to the componentization and backwards compatibility issues; in short, it doesn’t think about them at all. Windows 7 will be a from-the-ground-up packaging of the ...

One of the banes of my existence is maintaining backward compatibility to versions of Windows from 15 years ago while supporting new features of Windows Vista. It's quite a juggling act. I use three ...

Rumor mill: Leaks, rumors, and comments from Microsoft over the past few years have fueled speculation that the company is fundamentally changing its console strategy. If the latest information is ...