Windows 7 Compatible...No, Really This Time

pcworld ^ | September 30, 2009

[JoeProBono]

[freestyle]

MSnbc right? I think they need to get their heads out of their *ss and then focus on software.

[umgud]

If Vista won’t support XP stuff, will Win 7 support both? Or, will ya have to buy new printers, etc all over again?

[ROTB]

The first of many mistakes with the launch of Windows Vista was the widespread lack of compatible drivers for critical devices like printers.

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I don’t get it, why even change the device model? Why not keep compatibility with ALL XP devices?

[microgood]

If Vista won’t support XP stuff, will Win 7 support both? Or, will ya have to buy new printers, etc all over again?

Actually with Windows 7 you get a virtual version of Windows XP so you can still run everything you have in that window.

[DGHoodini]

Don’t bet the rent money on this, but it is my understanding that 7 will support a ‘virtual XP” environment, if you have the extra memory and hard disk space to support it.

[Blue Highway]

I’ve been using Windows 7 since January. There is no special “window” to run XP programs in, Win 7 is backwards compatible, just like Vista was.

[Jet Jaguar]

Hey, you can do that with a Mac!

What a concept.

[The Cajun]

Gee, why didn’t Microcrap do that with XP for previous versions of windows, would have save a bunch of people mucho de niro in the form of printers, scanners, graphic accelerators, sound cards, etc, etc.

[Blue Highway]

GREED

[ransomnote]

Do you have Win 7 Home Premium? I too had heard that Win 7 would have an XP window. I went to Microsoft’w website tonight and on their ‘compare the versions’ page for Win 7, supposedly Win 7 Pro and Win 7 Ultimate do not have the ability to run ‘many xp programs’ (microsoft’s phrasing so they can weasel out if your XP programs don’t run) but that Home Premium does not support XP programs.
Here’s the ‘compare the versions’ page I referred to:http://www.microsoft.com/windows/windows-7/compare-editions/default.aspx

[Frantzie]

I heard MSFT does not include it in the lower end versions of Windows 7. MSFT will screw it up again. Just bring back XP and XP Pro.

[The Cajun]

GREED

LOL, I kind of suspected that. Particularly still pissed about having to give up my legal paper size perfectly functioning HP scanner. HP said no problems running it with XP, they lied. Myself and several thousand HP scanner users can attest to that.

[Frantzie]

If that is the case then it will be another failure like Vitsa. They should have kept XP and XP Pro.

MSFT is a major fail like Obama.

[microgood]

Gee, why didn’t Microcrap do that with XP for previous versions of windows, would have save a bunch of people mucho de niro in the form of printers, scanners, graphic accelerators, sound cards, etc, etc.

Your answered your own question.

[Quix]

What’s your perspective, roamer?

[Quix]

Hmmmm

I think I have one of those . . . it won’t run with Win 7?

[microgood]

I was talking about this

Virtual OS.

[freestyle]

Don’t bet the rent money on this, but it is my understanding that 7 will support a ‘virtual XP” environment, if you have the extra memory and hard disk space to support it.

Well hopefully. I don't think the beta does though. Perhaps they can virtually make the software at least as good as XP is. lol

I don't think devices should be an issue in 7... well, I hope not.

[Blue Highway]

I have the beta copy of Ultimate. It simply is not true that it won’t run XP programs. Heck I am running Photoshop 5.5 which was before Windows 98SE and it is running fine.