The Utterly Thorough Guide To Awesome Application Compatibility on Windows 7.

How does backward compatibility work in windows 7?

I'm glad you asked.

You don't got to be a Hanselman to know all this.

Here's a pictographicatorial guide to compatibility checking in the windows 7.

* In point of fact, it's a virtual Raymond Chen (a VRC), but the MS guys are so freakin good at virtualization now that You Will Never Ever Ever EVER Be Able To Detect The Difference. Even Mrs Chen is rarely sure. And only when that fails do they invoke the real Ray Chen.

So take it from me, a world expert on the computing technologies, that this new version of windows will be just about the best thing since Vista.

'Steven Nagy' on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 11:58:43 GMT, sez:

Ok, I gotta be honest, I just can't follow your blog anymore Leon.

'abby, the hacker chick blog' on Thu, 02 Jul 2009 12:15:47 GMT, sez:

haha, I have no idea who Ray Chen is - Google and wiki tell me he's an australian violinist:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ray_Chen

'jabber' on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 03:41:55 GMT, sez:

Ha ha! Love it. Not certain the facts are right there, but nice.

@abby
Ray Chen is more normally called Raymond Chen. He's a legendary blogger who is an actual 'world expert' at this kind of thing.

'Joseph Cooney' on Fri, 03 Jul 2009 08:50:51 GMT, sez:

But I've got to be honest....it's even funnier if you swap in a virtualized violinist, instead of a virtualized crufty windows shell programmer. Whizzzzz!

'Anonymous' on Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:16:08 GMT, sez:

The virtual Raymond Chen module will criticize your misuse of the Win32 APIs and follow it with a witty anecdote.

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