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October 2009 - Posts

Why are they called “giblets” anyway?

Five years ago, I attended one of the initial security training courses as a part of the XP SP2 effort.  I wrote this up in one of my very first posts entitled “ Remember the giblets ” and followed it up last year with “ The Trouble with Giblets Read More...
Posted Monday, October 26, 2009 9:05 AM by LarryOsterman | 0 Comments
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Windows 7 Reflections…

Today[1] Microsoft formally launched Windows 7.  I can’t say how proud I am of the work we did in Windows 7 – it’s been an amazing journey.  This is the 4th version of Windows I’ve worked on and I have never felt this way about a release of Read More...
Posted Friday, October 23, 2009 10:53 AM by LarryOsterman | 16 Comments
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Win7 Whoppers

Wow, one of my co-workers just sent this image out. It’s totally awesome (IMHO)… http://twitpic.com/mehp6/full Edit: The image tag didn't work for some reason so I removed it and just left the link... Bonus: The first Win7 ad: http://video.nytimes.com/video/2009/10/21/multimedia/1247465293593/an-ad-for-windows-7-from-microsoft.html Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 21, 2009 6:39 PM by LarryOsterman | 8 Comments
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Looking for new skillz (turning the blog around)…

Just for giggles, I went looking at the various job listings within Microsoft and outside Microsoft (no, I’m not going anywhere, I was just curious).  While looking, I realized that I had absolutely no marketable skills :).  Nobody seems to Read More...
Posted Tuesday, October 20, 2009 5:31 PM by LarryOsterman | 37 Comments
 
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