January 2008 - Posts
A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to sit down with Gov Maharaj (whose name rhymes with Orange), a developer in the Windows Fundamentals Dev team, and chat about debugging and mitigating application compatibility issues. You can view our discussion
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I had my worldview challenged today. I had gone on record saying that, if you are deploying to Standard Users, then UAC really can't hurt you - it can only help you. But then I saw something I really did not understand - two identical machines, side by
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As part of my job, I debug and mitigate application compatibility issues with Windows Vista for customers who are migrating to the operating system. Along the way, I also get my fair share of Office 2007 questions (on which I am no expert) since these
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Here was an interesting little conversation that took place on one of our internal discussion lists today: One person was trying to back up his documents directory. So, he'd use Robocopy to copy the files over. For example, he would use the following
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Updated 18-April-2008 : I did a clean build of this on Visual Studio 2008 before posting, and I forgot about the built-in automatic manifests. These manifests disable some of the shims, and also turn off the installer detection. Updating the attachment
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2007 was really a fun year - I had a blast. I finally started to get some traction documenting the shims provided in Windows - hopefully you like some of the changes Liz made in ACT 5.0.2 to add good documentation here. I've been talking about it all
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I've been on vacation for a couple of weeks, which has given me some down-time to do some reading and thinking. Of course, what I have thought about may not always be what the author intended for me to think about, but it tends to be the books with unexpected
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