Aug 23, 2011 13:33 GMT  ·  By

Customers can turn to a resource provided by Microsoft if they need help to deal with application incompatibility problems irrespective of the version of Windows they’re running.

KB 2388210 has been around for a while now, but it’s still an excellent source of links for a variety of application compatibility updates offered by the Redmond company for Windows releases that continue to enjoy support.

According to the software giant, customers running Windows XP Professional x64 edition, Windows Server 2003 Service Pack 2 (SP2), Windows Vista SP2, Windows Server 2008, Windows Server 2008 SP2, Windows 7, Windows Embedded Standard 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 can turn to the Knowledge Base article.

Essentially, all customers running a variant of the operating system preceding Windows 7 SP1 or Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 and running into incompatibility issues can take advantage of the app compatibility refreshes.

“Install this update to resolve a set of known application compatibility issues with Windows,” the company said. “Microsoft regularly releases application compatibility updates for these Windows operating systems.”

Microsoft indicates that KB 2388210 comes to replace a range of application compatibility updates released for Windows, covering mainly Windows 7 and Vista. I have included the download links provided by Microsoft at the bottom of this article.

It’s important to note that customers will come across more incompatibility issues moving forward. As Windows 7 is embraced by more and more users worldwide, software developers will see less and less value in adapting their software to also work on Windows Vista and Windows XP.

This trend will only accelerate over the next few years, leaving those customers that decide to stick with XP and Vista until the end to deal with more compatibility glitches.

Here are the download links for KB 2388210:

All supported x64-based versions of Windows XP Professional

All supported x86-based versions of Windows Server 2003

All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2003

All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2003

All supported x86-based versions of Windows Vista

All supported x64-based versions of Windows Vista

All supported x86-based versions of Windows Server 2008

All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008

All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008

All supported x86-based versions of Windows 7

All supported x64-based versions of Windows 7

All supported x86-based versions of Windows Embedded Standard 7

All supported x64-based versions of Windows Embedded Standard 7

All supported x64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2

All supported IA-64-based versions of Windows Server 2008 R2