What Is Forward Compatibility?
Forward compatible English is Forwards Compatibility, Forward has the meaning of "future".
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- Foreign name
- Forwards Compatibility
- Forward compatible English is Forwards Compatibility, Forward has the meaning of "future".
- Backward compatibility deals with whether an assembly compiled with an earlier version can be executed on a newer version. Forward compatibility deals with whether an assembly compiled with a newer version can execute on an older version. Backward compatibility is a major change in product behavior with type definitions and types. Forward compatibility is controlled by metadata version
- Quoting two paragraphs on the Microsoft website for reference:
- Backward compatibility. The 2007 Microsoft Office system is backward compatible with the following earlier versions: Microsoft Office 2000, Microsoft Office XP, and Microsoft Office 2003. Users of these versions can easily adopt the new format and continue to get the most benefit from existing files. In particular, they can continue to use the old .doc, .xls, and .ppt binary formats, which are fully compatible with the 2007 file format. Users of earlier Office versions can download a free update so they can open and edit files in the new format in earlier versions. Users with the 2007 Office version can set the default file format to whatever format they choose. This helps ensure that users can continue to use third-party solutions based on earlier versions and work with upgraded colleagues, vendors, customers, and others.
- Forward compatibility: Earlier versions of the application were able to open files in newer versions and ignore features not implemented in earlier versions. For example, Word 2003 is forward compatible with Word 2007 because it can successfully open Word 2007 files using converters. [1]