I recently built a new computer at home and took the opportunity to make it a beta software testing platform. I run Vista and Office 2007 on it along with Windows Live Messenger Beta and of course IE7 Beta and Media Player 11 Beta (exclusively, it is...

I have to start off by saying it's been a rough couple of months. I started at Microsoft late November and started getting ill in the middle of January. I can't say I am completely better yet, but I am taking a lot of steps to get things under control...

Someone sent me an e-mail asking about the user mode component of the Filter Manager. Since I am still not feeling well I won't be writing an entry covering it right now, but you can take a look at this presentation . It is a pretty simple overview of...

First of all, I am still sick, but I wanted to at least write something. So, I thought I would write about something that is bugging me right now. In all of my previous jobs I could work while I was sick; I got things done a little bit slower, but...

I apologize for not posting much the last couple weeks. A lot of stuff has been on the back burner because I have been having some medical issues and am going through a bunch of testing. They don't know what it is for sure yet, but I'm hoping it is something...

This post was originally going to be a comment in response to rootbeer's question in a comment to my last blog entry, but it became such a long reply that I decided to make it a post. The question was: “How dangerous are kernel-level rootkits today...

I am by no means a kernel expert, but I do have a couple years of experience working with the Windows kernel and I have done a fair amount of reading about the internals of Windows and operating system development in general. And of course I have looked...

In my last entry I covered some basic information about file system minifilter drivers. This entry I want to talk about more about them, specifically their context support. I don’t think I will make this as long as I previously planned on because I think...

For my first technical post I wanted to talk about the Windows component I have been learning about and working with the most, the Filter Manager. After working on Nooks at college, I came to Microsoft aware of the difficulty in writing a driver for Windows...

In a previous post I mentioned that I would discuss my qualifications for being the kernel-mode go-to-guy for my group despite only having a bachelor’s degree and so I figured now is as good a time as any to discuss it. Well, first of all, I spent...

One of the things about being a new employee at any company is learning how to find the information to do your job. One of the primary resources is of course the code, but usually you don’t want to have to look at the code itself to determine how to use...

So, I guess I should start off with some information about what exactly I do at Microsoft. As I mentioned, I started almost four months ago as a software development engineer (SDE). I work in the Windows Core division in what is known as Windows Fundamentals...

I should probably rename this blog a bit since I've actually been at Microsoft for almost four months now, but the name will work for now. I have several main interests in starting this blog: talking about working at Microsoft, talking about my first...