The App Compat Guy

One of the most common questions I get while working with enterprise customers is: should I leave Compatibility View turned on for the Local Intranet zone? We have an awful lot of guidance that seems to be pushing for standards, standards, standards everywhere...

We recently announced that Internet Explorer 9 will be available starting Monday, March 14 . Naturally, if you are a geek (which, statistically speaking, is true for a fairly large percentage of folks who happen to be reading my blog), you are asking...

Getting customers off of Internet Explorer 6 (IE6) is certainly one of the priorities within Microsoft – how many other products have countdowns to its demise ? But who would have thought that one of the biggest challenges for app compat that keeps people...

For those of you who are attending MMS 2011 in Las Vegas next week, I have a couple of sessions I will be presenting there: Internet Explorer 9 in the Enterprise Friday, March 25 10:00 am Lagoon L In this session, we will be providing an overview of Internet...

Every now and then, I run into a customer situation where the ACT data collection agent causes an application on the desktop to stop working correctly. This happens because the compatibility evaluators in ACT use shims to collect this data, and some applications...