Enough has been written about WMI since its first release as an out of band package for Windows NT 4.0 SP4 and as part of the platform for every release of Windows since. WMI has been and will be a critical core Windows Platform Infrastructure piece to aid manageability of systems and applications.

A critical missing form of communication for ad-hoc musings from the core product development team that brings you WMI release after release has always been missing. You have heard our collective input in the form of MSDN documentation put out by our documentation folks. Additionally we have fielded questions from time to time on existing issues you have faced with consuming WMI or building WMI Providers via our newsgroups. It is time that we added bloging to the arsenal of communication we have with outside world.

On this blog you can expect to find interesting tidbits that we encounter in our daily life in designing and engineering this product for the next release of WMI. It isn’t always easy to explain on how we designed a feature in the way you see in its finished form. The lengthy discussions we had, trials and tribulations we went through in shaping the feature is lost in the process.

Of course there are going to be many Intellectual Property type of thingys and hence we will obviously refrain from discussing detailed algorithms used, etc, but you can surely find other musings on this blog in the months to come interesting enough for you to come back. This will also hopefully get you good insight in the way we think and build WMI features.

We don’t promise to reply to all your comments, but we are surely watching and reading most of them.