How To Manage Windows Vista Application Compatibility
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| As of the end of March, 2007, 129 applications were certified or designed
| for Windows Vista, and 922 applications worked or were compatible with
| Windows Vista. Think that's a lot? Well, it does add up to over 1,000
| applications you can run on Windows Vista with few, if any, issues.
| But, given that there are tens of thousands of applications designed
| for Windows, this first thousand is just a drop in the bucket.
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http://www.informationweek.com/shared/printableArticle.jhtml?articleID=198800462
Choose GNU/Linux because it has far more applications. The vast majority of
them is also Free. It is all about backward compatibility, which ensures
your favourite/crucial applications (and accompanying data) never becomes
obsolete.
Related:
Playing Classic Games Under Ubuntu
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| Now if you still want to relive your old days and play these classics
| whether they belong to NES, SNES, or plain old DOS games Ubuntu
| provides a way of playing these classic on your Linux box.
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http://linuxondesktop.blogspot.com/2007/03/playing-classic-games-under-ubuntu.html
Why console apps still rock
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| The best part about these apps is that they are so lightweight
| and so low profile that you hardly need any processor overhead
| to run them. Back in September I had a 75Mhz Pentium machine
| (that's right, 75Mhz -- not 750Mhz) that could handle all those
| apps -- at the same time -- without any strain whatsoever. They
| don't eat processor time and don't need extra time to get done.
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http://kmandla.wordpress.com/2007/03/01/why-console-apps-still-rock/
Vista Breaks Applications
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| The big secret at Redmond is that existing applications and new
| products will not work with Vista.
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| Microsoft really doesn't want you to know this, but many of your
| existing applications won't work with Vista. In fact, some brand
| new products won't work with Vista.
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http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,2062318,00.asp
Vista breaks 90% of games, claims game publisher
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| Alex St. John, chief executive of game publisher WildTangent, today
| blasted his former employer for a half-baked and negligent way of
| treating the majority of game publishers - small development studios
| and individual programmers of casual games: St. John claims that at
| least nine out of ten games do not work with Vista.
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http://tomshardware.co.uk/2007/01/30/vista_games/
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