If you're waiting to get your hands on a copy of Windows 7 before you can start your compatibility testing, you're going to be behind from the start. That's because you can test now for both system and application compatibility issues. Microsoft provides tools for testing your system and your applications. There are three tools you should become familiar with: Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor, Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5, and the Windows 7 Software Logo Toolkit. The Windows 7 Upgrade Advisor is important because it will tell you if your current test systems can run Windows 7. Now's the time to find out if the test machines you're currently counting on upgrading to Windows 7 will work. If not, you're going to be further behind in your compatibility testing as you wait to procure new systems.
The Microsoft Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.5 contains tools and documentation to evaluate application compatibility issues before deploying Windows 7. You can find out more information about the toolkit, as well as where to download it, here.
The final tool is part of the Windows 7 logo program. The Windows 7 Software Logo
Toolkit provides you a quick and agile, automated, light weight tool to validate your application’s compliance with the Windows 7 Software Logo requirements.
None of these tools require Windows 7, but each provides you valuable compatibility information. By using these tools now, you'll have an almost complete pictures of your compatibility issues before Windows 7 even ships.
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