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New ACT for Vista
Final release of a toolkit for assuring applications will run correctly under the new Vista operating system.
Microsoft in late January announced the final release of a toolkit for assuring applications will run correctly under the new Vista operating system.
"[Microsoft's Application Compatibility Toolkit (ACT) version 5] enables software developers, independent software vendors, and IT professionals who work in a corporate environment to determine, before rolling out within the organization, whether their applications are compatible with [the] new version of Windows," says a statement on Microsoft's site.
ACT 5 can identify compatibility issues when using Vista and IE7, such as which applications have problems with Vista's new User Account Control feature.
It also features new developer and tester tools, and Microsoft has set up the ACT Community, an online resource where users can post comments and share information about application compatibility testing.
The kit is available for download from Microsoft's site.
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