Back in February I blogged about a strange case we had seen where a customer was having trouble seeing certain ASP.NET performance counters when using WMI to access them . If you start Perfmon with the /WMI switch then Perfmon uses WMI rather than the...

Following on the Windows 7 theme of the last few posts, the big one – Windows 7 has been Released To Manufacturing ! This means the coding and testing is done and now the cogs of the manufacturing machine and distribution system start whirring feverishly...

The other day when I blogged about pre-ordering Windows 7 and how you could win prizes by writing code that targets it , I linked to some resources of interest to developers targeting Windows 7. Well, today I came across another four useful resources...

So last week I blogged about how you could pre-order Windows 7 at a good price . Well this week I found out that you (not me or anyone else at Microsoft) can Code to the Power of Windows 7 and maybe win prizes including cash, a laptop and/or a trip to...

Order it today at a great price I don’t usually make myself an advertising mouthpiece but as a canny Scot I cannot pass up telling you about a good deal when I see one. If you are based in the UK you may be interested in the chance to pre-order Windows...

Paul Long blogs about an interesting new diagnostic capability in Windows 7 and some enhanced functionality to the network monitor tool .

My job involves a wide variety of stuff, from investigation, debugging, diagnosing and solving of specific customer problems through passing on product feedback and bug reports to product groups and mentoring other support engineers on their cases to...