For Windows 7 XP compatibility mode?

In looking for information on the issue of whether the version of Windows 7's Home Premium would be appropriate for my laptop, I came across this quote on this site: «Home Premium always a compatibility mode that allows to launch programs XP.» What does that mean? What's not mean? For example, what happens if I try to run an older version of SPSS, a statistical software?

Most of the applications that were designed for Windows 2000 or Windows XP will always properly run on all editions of Windows 7, including Home Premium. Some applications check the version number of the operating system and will fail to run if it finds an unexpected number of version, Windows 7 has so a compatibility mode that allows these types of programs to run correctly.

There is also another option of compatibility oriented informatics professionals and business users called "Windows XP Mode," which is essentially a fully licensed copy of Windows XP Professional running inside a virtual machine and is only available for users of Windows 7 Professional, Windows 7 Enterprise and Windows 7 Ultimate.

Windows XP Mode is intended mainly for companies who have designed their own internal software that is targeted specifically for a version of the software - an excellent example of this is a web app that only works in Internet Explorer 6 (which is available with Windows XP, but not with Windows 7).

For more information on the compatibility of applications with Windows 7, please visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/help/compatibility and http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/Make-older-programs-run-in-this-version-of-Windows.

For more information about Windows XP Mode, please visit http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/products/features/windows-xp-mode and http://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/install-and-use-windows-xp-mode-in-windows-7.

Hope that helps, have a nice day! Kristan M. Kenney ("Nighthawk64")

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