App-DNA is one of our allies that supported our Windows 7 efforts from early design onward, we are pleased that
App-DNA is introducing AppTitude 4.0 to support our mutual customers’ Windows 7 compatibility efforts.
Mark Rogers, Director ISV Ecosystem, Microsoft Corp.

What’s new?

In addition to supporting the soon to be released Microsoft Windows 7, AppTitude V4.0 adds over 15 new and updated features, all contributing to delivering three key benefits:

- Improved usability – With the support of more platforms and features, AppTitude has never been easier to use and delivers exactly what you need to assess and drive your application migration.

- Increased accuracy – The most accurate app-compat tool on the market just became even better. New manifestations and remediation across all reports and inclusion of Microsoft Windows PCS internal “shims” dbase means unmatched accuracy and reliability of results.

- More flexible pricing – V4.0 allows selective reporting and remediation guidance – so you pay for exactly what you need.

Here are some the feature highlights in more detail:

• A new Windows 7 Report for AppTitude’s Desktop Compatibility Manager module;

• Extension of AppTitude’s Production Manager to now support VMWare images. This means users can capture install snapshots using VMWare, in addition to the previously supported Virtual Server 2005.

• Integration of AppTitude with the Windows PCA internal database that ships with Windows 7 and Vista for improved reporting accuracy. AppTitude 4.0 recognizes the three PCA states within the OS: “automatic shim,” in which the OS automatically configures the application to run; “soft block,” in which the OS warns that the application may have minor problems but allows it to run; and “hard block,” in which the OS prevents the application from running under it at all.

• Newly-improved manifestations and remediations across all reports provide better documentation and detail on algorithms, offering improved usability;

• New extended attribute import for .Net applications provides the ability to determine .NET dependencies in much greater detail. Now .NET apps receive the same low-level analysis in AppTitude reports as Win32 apps. This improves overall accuracy and supports the assessment of a wider range of applications.