Unlike Windows Vista RTM, which delivered an extremely poor application compatibility experience to end users, the evolution to
Windows 7 is causing extremely few apps to break when installed or run on top of the new operating system. But with exceptions to every rule, Windows 7 does fail to play nice with a small number of programs. This is why Microsoft periodically kicks up a notch the platform, updating it in order to resolve various problems reported by customers. Case in point: the February 2010 Application Compatibility Update.
