Backward Compatibility

Backward Compatibility

A place to discuss the benefits and the added complexity of technology that has backward compatibility. Product planning upfront for backward compatibility can have a dramatic impact on project success in the long term.

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Offer backward compatibility for PS2 titles with every system Sony's $400 entry-level 40GB PS3 doesn't offer backward compatibility for PS2 games. ...  
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The conversation related to what I felt was misinformation in various places about whether or not IntelliSense would be backward compatible.  
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The Full-Featured Business-Class Wireless Access Point Delivers Draft 2.0 Wireless-N at Either 5GHz to Avoid Interference from Legacy 802.11b/g-based Devices or 2.4GHz to Provide Backward Compatibility with ...  
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There are 907 identified and unidentified users. To see the list of identified users, Click here My existing hardware 2.00 gigahertz AMD Athlon 64 128 kilobyte primary memory cache 512 kilobyte secondary memory ...  
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A few months ago I read two articles on MSDN about the compatibility The first link said, "Backward compatibility means that an application is compiled for an earlier version of the .NET Framework, and ...  
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Java Executor Service Rocket Scientists and Generics Brain Surgeons http://feeds.dzone.com – We at GridGain recently were faced with the following problem. It turns out (may be old news to some), that java.util.concurrent.ExecutorService in JDK 1.6 is not backward compatible with JDK 1.5...  
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ostatic.com: Engineers like to solve new problems. So it should come as no surprise that hardware and software engineers have wrestled for years with the issue of "backward compatibility" -- the idea that new hardware and software should be just like the old hardware and software, only faster...  
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A few days ago, my ZDNet blogging colleague Jason Perlow offered some suggestions on how he would design Windows 7 for maximum backward compatibility. One of his key proposals involved using virtualization to solve application compatibility problems: What if Microsoft were to build a "Personal...  
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shawnz tips a blog post up at thebetaguy that details Windows 7's huge departure from the past, and the bold strategy Microsoft will be employing to maintain backward compatibility. Hint: Apple did it seven years back. There are interesting anti-trust implications too. "Windows 7 takes a...  
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Rajiv @ 2:43 am PST Backward compatibility is a challenge for everyone from the guy writing the kernel to guy building the application.  
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