Note: this post has been edited with revised information I just received my first report of a user who downloaded an ISO version of our SDK and reported an installation problem. It turns out the problem was due to a corrupt ISO download. To verify...

Thanks to a lot of hard work by my friend Daemond, the browsable Feb CTP docs are live on MSDN . Search generally takes a few extra days to go live - give it till the weekend or so before you start using Search. This is due to the way crawls run on our...

Our Windows Vista Developer Story content continues to march forward. The latest article is the Windows Communication Foundation Roadmap In response to several user requests, this is available in three places: The Windows Vista Developer Center , the...

There's one nasty, pernicious bug that we thought we'd tracked down for the Feb CTP but which is rearing its evil head. It's a build failure that ends with: 12:51:19 PM Thursday, February 23, 2006: [SDKSetup:Error] Config_Products_Install: Windows...

Whoo hoo! Can't wait for users to take a look at the result of all of our hard work. That said, please note that you must be in the Beta program to get a copy of the Windows Vista OS. You can download the Windows SDK ; however, without the OS bits...

It looks like the Windows SDK Feb CTP may be live very soon... expect a post within 24 hours re status...

If you're waiting for the Feb CTP of the SDK to go live, you're probably aware that it's not yet live. The SDK is staged, tested and ready, but we're still waiting on some OS issues to be resolved before we press the button to push it live. *sigh* I can...

I'm going to try to post by the end of the day with our go-live date for the Feb CTP of the SDK. It's a big release for us and for me personally, since many improvements for Setup will be in this release. Unfortunately, the release date is still in some...

Next week we take part in the great Microsoft musical chairs exercise, an office move. This will be my fourth office move since I joined the company as a full-time employee in September 2000, which should give you an indication how popular they are. This...

I received a wave of user bugs this week that come down to the SDK not having enough disk space to install. For the Feb CTP and all previous releases, the SDK needs about 1.5 GB of disk space for installation. We don't have the ability to select custom...

A couple of weeks ago, a user asked why we couldn't post the Vista Developer Story as browsable docs online instead of in .chm form, and why we couldn't just click one button and get docs published online. It's a good question. In my past life as a...

At 5:00 today, we're officially at ZBB for the February CTP. Zero Bug Bounce is big for us, because it means we can finally start slipstreaming towards release in about two weeks. (Unfortunately I'm not allowed to post our fomal go-live date.) This...

I hope the user who just wrote to me won't mind if I use him to help explain what to do if your install of the Windows SDK fails. I know that I may have been guity of some classic "inside Microsoft" thinking, so I wanted to clarify the instructions. ...