I’m reporting again, looking at this site from behind the glassy surface of Windows 7 on my new notebook.

Despite all the favourable opinions about Micorsoft’s newest operating system being a stable improvement over Windows XP (I choose not to mention Vista), the upgrade was easy enough – but regrettably only at first glance. Yes, all that fancy user interface stuff in version 7 looks and works nice. The disappointment came after a day or two when I noticed that some of my key applications carried over from my previous computer are no longer working as they should.

- FrontPage 2003, which I use for general website editing and maintenence, has serious compatibility problems when running in new Windows. These problems have been confirmed in other discussion groups and prove stubbornly impervious to Windows 7 “compatibility modes”. Amazing for a product originating from but a previous version of Microsoft Office.

- Windows 7 refuses to recognize my 3G modem if plugged into one of the USB ports of the docking station (Lenovo X61). However, the same modem will work fine if plugged directly into the notebook.

- Internet Explorer 8 will not support cut & paste in Blogger posting interface, which it did satisfactorily in XP. Google Chrome still works, and it will not scramble page layouts in Blogger’s administrative interface like IE8 appears to do.

I never before experienced any problem in upgrading from one version of Windows to another, but each of the current three issues qualifies as annoying and counterproductive. Especially the FrontPage which is Microsoft’s own application and for which there appears to be no good workaround. And so it limits my ability to do editing work at the site. Today’s new items have been completed through lot of technical experimenting and a dose of bad language… Enjoy while I keep installing and reinstalling things. I always have that XP installation disc somewhere atthe bottom of my drawer.

Oh, and by the way: this is my 300th post in this blog. I’ll be celebrating when everything is working properly again.