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November 2005 - Posts

Dell "X-Image"

Kevin Devin ran across Dell's X-Image tool . He wonders if this is not the same Microsoft Ximage tool. From this article you can see it clearly is not. Rather, it is an internally developed Dell tool they started work on in 2001. It was developed for Read More...
Posted Monday, November 28, 2005 8:49 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments

Happy Thanksgiving everyone

Over the past months via our TAP program, events such as WinHEC and our customer site visits, I've met a lot of great people who are using our kits. That has been one of the greatest pleasures of my job. To everyone I've had the pleasure of meeting fact-to-face Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 10:38 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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Cable vs. Phone

A few weeks ago I got a flyer in the mail from the cable company, Comcast, advertising phone service via their cable system. We're building a new home and every phone/cable jack in the house is a dual jack, with both coax and cat5 in the box so I can Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 23, 2005 9:12 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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ASI Presentation at WDK TAP Hands-on Event

In case you weren't fortunate enough to attend the hands-on event, I've posted the content of the ASI presentation here . Since it was created entirely by the ASI dev and test teams it has a slightly different perspective than I give, plus it has some Read More...
Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 12:01 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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Wrapping up the hands-on lab

We're wrapping up the hands-on lab today. I can't remember ever having more fun at work than I've had this week. Seeing the interactions between our devs and testers and the TAP partners was really awesome. I hope everyone who came to Redmond this week Read More...
Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 11:51 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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Danger and the Windows Driver Kit

The NT Insider showed up in my mail box today. Honestly, it is usually too geeky for me, but the Peter Pontificates column caught my eye. The headline..."Danger and the Windows Driver Kit." I laughed out load several times as he described the HCT as a Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 17, 2005 2:00 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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First day of hands-on lab for TAP partners

The room was packed to capacity, ok beyond capacity, for the first day of the hands-on lab. As far as I can see all of the scheduling and technical stuff is going very smoothly. It's really exciting to see this many people dedicating this much time to Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 16, 2005 5:21 PM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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Handy little switch of the day

It is common to install a test OS via ASI then discover that that build you just installed has a bad NIC driver or even no NIC driver for the NIC in your test system. I've described earlier how you can install the NIC driver automatically via ASI. That Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 2:59 PM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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Technology over product

One of the cardinal sins of product development is creating a product to take advantage of the latest wiz-bang technology and ending up with a product that is really cool and really technologically advanced but a product that nobody wants. I just found Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 4:13 PM by craigrow | 2 Comments
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More SDV Links: thanks Steve.

Thanks to Steve Dispensa for the link to this article on Static Driver Verifier. The article also links here , where you'll find most of the "official" information on SDV. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 12:51 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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Excellent new article on Ximage from Jerry Honeycutt on Technet

Here . This is the first time I've seen someone, other than myself, discuss the advantages of file based images, such as single instancing, image maintenance and non-destructive deployment and the availability of a public API set. Jerry's conclusion..."XImage Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 12:41 PM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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SDV in Wired News

I saw a lot of people congratulating each other around here when Wired News published an article on SDV yesterday. If you're writing Windows drivers you need to know about this tool. It is, of course, in the WDK. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 11, 2005 9:35 AM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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Dates for WinHEC 2006 have been set

See details here . May 23-25 in Seattle...sigh. Anybody tired of going to Seattle for WinHEC yet? Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 3:53 PM by craigrow | 3 Comments
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Using DIFxApp

This is the first I've seen anybody post about their experience using DIFxApp. I hope this is just the beginning. As I've said before, if you're at all involved with the development, distribution or support of Windows drivers you need to know about DIFx. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:46 AM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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HCT Retirement

The November 24 edition of the Microsoft WHQL newsletter made an important announcement. The WDK will replace the HCT at Windows Vista RTM. It will also replace the DCT, IFS and DDK. The replacement of the HCT for downlevel, Windows XP and Server 2003, Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:22 AM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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DTM Content on MSDN

DTM content is beginning to appear on MSDN. Here is the first article I'm aware of. Please let me know what content is good or bad and what additional content is needed. Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:18 AM by craigrow | 0 Comments
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WDK Hands-On Event "Sold-out"

The on campus WDK Hands-on event next week is officially sold out. We actually had to turn away a fair number of people. This is kind of a good-news bad-news situation. I don't like that we're having to turn people away but at the same time I'm really Read More...
Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 10:13 AM by craigrow | 2 Comments
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Live

If you've been reading this blog you know how much I like Start.com . Well, it looks like the prototype is about to become the official fron-end of Microsoft's effort to sell Windows and Office as a service. Check out www.live.com . Read More...
Posted Thursday, November 03, 2005 7:01 AM by craigrow | 1 Comments
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