A friend of mine pointed me to the article The Windows Vista Developer Story: Application Compatibility, Migration, and Interoperability quite some time ago (shame on me for not mentioning it earlier). It is a very useful resource when you have to deal with adapting existing applications for the changes that come with Windows Vista.
Topics of this article include:
- Thirty-Minute Compatibility Check
- Operating System Versioning
- User Account Control
- Windows Resource Protection (WRP)
- Internet Explorer Protected Mode
- Windows Vista 64-bit
- Microsoft Graphical Identification and Authentication (GINA)
- Session 0 Isolation
- Networking: TCP/IP Stack and the Windows Filtering Platform
- Networking: Kernel Mode IP Helper APIs
- Networking: IPv6
- Compatibility Risks