May 2009 - Posts
In the run-up to any operating system release, we start to see a lot of “world tour fever” and Windows 7 is no different. Windows has a huge partner ecosystem, and we want to make sure that we at least stand a fighting chance of helping you get it done
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ComputerWorld did a story on shims featuring my session from TechEd North America – check it out: http://www.computerworld.com/action/article.do?command=viewArticleBasic&articleId=9133382
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A while back, I posted about my experiences running at High DPI . Running Windows 7, I’ve been running High DPI for many months now, and I can no longer imagine going back. I had no issues with the technology. So then I got brave. Yesterday, I decided
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Allow me to describe the typical scenario for a first time user for the Application Compatibility Manager component of ACT 5.5: Get an inventory, press send/receive, discover that you don’t find as much data on there as you expected, then send an email
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About a year ago, at TechEd IT Professionals 2008, Josh Hoffman and I were in a bloggers panel together talking about Windows Vista. (Windows what?) Afterwards, he came up to me and asked me if I could put together an article on application compatibility
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Those of you who write application installers using Windows Installer may have noticed a bit of a change in the behavior of version checking in Windows 7 – if you happen to be doing your version checking from a custom action. Let’s have a look. If you’d
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