I hate Windows Vista, will Windows 7 be compatible with it? -

Hardly anyone has Windows Vista, so none of my word documents or powerpoints are compatible with theirs! I had to get a new computer this year, and I didn t realize that Vista was completely incompatible with everything! Will the new Windows 7 be compatible with my Vista? How would I switch my computer over to Windows 7?

Windows 7 is an operating system, just as Vista is, so compatibility with each other is not an issue. But, as W7 is intended as an incremental upgrade to Vista, it will be compatible with all programs and applications that are Vista compatible. Word documents and powerpoint presentations, if they are Microsoft, should be compatible with other versions of the Microsoft programs, regardless of versions, So either you or your friends are using other branded programs, or corrupted programs

for 1 thing vista sold much more than any OS since windows 98, #2 windows7 is an upgrade for vista, better security, more options, better compatibility,more stable,more features, faster processing,and many more that they are not talking about yet. And FYI the only thing that i had problems that i had with compatability was with a old printer, all my doc s, powerpoint,excel every thing worked right out of the box. windows 7should be launching in late 2009

Do you realize that your Word document and powerpoint compatibility has absolutely NOTHING to do with Vista? It s true. You probably just have the new version of Office (2007) while everyone else has an old version. In Office, you can save your files as a 2003 version and it ll be compatible with the old versions. And Vista is not imcompatible with everything. In fact, almost everything works with it, even things that were never intended to work with Vista.