The App Compat Guy

One query that comes in quite a bit from the IT Pro community around IE9 is this: what happened to the zone indication from the status bar? Zone information, for both the Developer and the IT Pro, can be pretty important. It determines the security context...

OK, so it’s not as famous as e=mc 2 , but here is the rule I apply for when to test an application for app compat.   You should test your applications when: cost failure × probability failure > cost testing   You should otherwise not bother...

For those of you attending TechEd Australia, if you are interested in application compatibility, there are two sessions you won’t want to miss tomorrow (September 1, 2011): Troubleshooting Application Compatibility Issues with Windows Internet Explorer...

In my ongoing efforts to clear out all of the low hanging fruit and leave behind all of the fun, gnarly, nerdy problems, my latest article on TechNet Magazine was just published. This one addresses Internet Explorer 9 application compatibility, and avoids...

Don’t have enough cash to attend TechEd Australia? Well, if you were really looking forward to the app compat content, I’ve got you covered. Tomorrow night (Monday, August 29), I’ll be speaking at the Brisbane Infrastructure Group up in (not surprisingly...

I haven’t done a recap post since TechReady 9 for some reason, but I figured it was about time to take a step back and think about the state of app compat presentations, and how I could continue to make them better. At TechReady 13, an internal Microsoft...