Pigs Can Fly

In the description of MIke's recent Channel9 interview , Charles hints that Marketing named the feature. Actualy, this was what we (the dev team) called the feature from the very begining! Its one of the few internal code names that stuck as an acutal...

I receive a lot of questions internally and from partners about what it takes for a system to run the desktop composition Aero them. The answer isn't straight forward - desktop composition is much more demanding than XP's GDI based window management....

I check my junk email folder every now and then. Its a bit humorous the lengths some people will go to misspell Viagra. But yesterday, some really odd spam arrived - 55 messages in total over about an hour and were sent to one an external alias I subscribe...

Hardware interrupt service routines and deferred procedure calls can be the silent killers of system performance. ISRs and DPCs are the highest priority code that runs in the system - they cannot be pre-empted by the OS and run to completion. ISRs and...

Vista manages graphics memory in a much more sophistical way than XP. In XP, the graphics driver was responsible for this; XP drivers report the amount of graphics memory to the OS however they want. In Vista, the WDDM manages graphics memory and knows much more about it....

Channel9 has a good video interview of Mike Fortin where he dicusses what our team does and goes into good detail on SuperFetch, disk layout and defrag, and other interesting topics. See http://channel9.msdn.com/showpost.aspx?postid=242429