App-compatibility toolkit for Windows 7 due in April
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Microsoft next month plans to release a toolkit to help business customers begin testing their existing applications for compatibility with Windows 7.
Though companies will have a considerable amount of time to test existing applications for compatibility with Windows 7 ahead of its release, it should be a less painful process if they've already done Vista testing. According to the roundtable transcript, applications compatible with Windows Vista should already be compatible with Windows 7 since the two OSes "share similar design frameworks."
"The [OS] kernel ... is updated with Windows 7, but is based on the same underlying architecture [as Vista]," according to the transcript.