Windows 7 compatibility?

[danielspencer2]

With windows 7 being released in a few months, will software that is made exclusively for Windows 7 work in ReactOS? For example, some software only works on Windows Vista and not windows xp.

[doomonyou]

The developers' intent is remaining compatible with the latest Windows. ReactOS will be compatible sooner or later.

[Haos]

Rather later, but will be.

[FlyingIsFun1217]

Kind of derailing from the topic (just a little), but is there many more new API's that need to be supported on W7? Isn't it essentially just a 'fixed' Vista? I'd love to know how much has actually changed between the two.

FlyingIsFun1217

[vicmarcal]

usually APIS are added and not removed to let the retrocompatibility. Myabe the problem is more the driver support that the APIs support. Some of the 7 APIS will be created by Wine,and hopefully we can use some of them.

[FlyingIsFun1217]

But were there as many API additions as xp->vista, for example, or were there just some changes here and there to 7? Do we even know?

FlyingIsFun1217

[Z98]

Direct2D, user mode threads, I'd consider those to be rather big. And the information about new APIs in 7 has been publicly available for a while now.

[GoBusto]

But were there as many API additions as xp->vista, for example, or were there just some changes here and there to 7? Do we even know?

FlyingIsFun1217

Vista famously used DirectX 10, whereas Windows 7 ships with DirectX 11.