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Random Meetings on the New York City Subway
When I first moved to New York City, many of my friends asked me how many famous people I have run into. While I did run in to Larry King at FAO Schwartz once, I am not aware of any other famous people...
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Marshaling the U.S. Open Golf Tournament
I have been somewhat distracted lately, so it has been a while since I posted. I have been knee deep in a number of projects I am working on with one of our customers, and last week, I was volunteering...
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Speaking With Authority on Subjects You Are Not Authoritative About
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...
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Looking Back at 2007
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...
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My Worst Travel Day (So Far)
John Robbins asks, "What's your worst travel day?"Wow, he sure has me beat. I can't top that.My worst travel day so far was returning home from Taipei last year. We had been watching for days as they...
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Please Use Reply to All - I Am Not a Member of This Discussion Group
Every now and then, I see email sent to a discussion list that includes something like the following:"Please use Reply to All I am not a member of this discussion group."And sometimes you see something...
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Conference Review Scores and Broken Keyboards
I had a bit of a bummer morning back at MMS 2008. I woke up early (fortunately the conference was in Pacific and my body was in Central, so it was less torturous than getting up early normally is for...
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Let's (Geek) Motor
The new phone books are here! The new phone books are here!Does my geekiness have no bounds? (Apparently not.) Now I just need to find somebody who has WNDPROC plates...Regardless, you can't possibly...
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The Windows SDK Breaks the New TR1 Extensions in Visual Studio 2008 SP1...
One of the main uses for my blog is to share those little annoyances that I spend hours or days solving and spare you the “fun” of going through this yourself. So, even though this isn’t really about...
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I live in airplanes.
The end of the year is approaching, and I normally like to do a bit of a review. This year, there was one statistic that really stood out for me. I have a car that is a blast to drive, and I love to...
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The Secret to Power App Compat Debugging
If you come to me for advice about how to become a debugger, chances are that I’m going to give you a couple of must-read reference books, an then tell you to start paying attention. Because, unless...
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Using Virtual PC 2004 Additions to Enhance the Windows 2000 Guest Experience...
A helpful tip I figured I would pass along…I keep copies of various older Microsoft operating systems around. Some of them I keep around for fun (occasionally I get a laugh from the old-timers when I...
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Another Chat with Richard on RunAs Radio
For the past several years, I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with Richard Campbell on all kinds of technology related topics. (Heads up: we are nerds.) I’ve always loved talking to Richard,...
View ArticleAnother Chat with Richard on RunAs Radio
For the past several years, I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with Richard Campbell on all kinds of technology related topics. (Heads up: we are nerds.) I’ve always loved talking to Richard,...
View ArticleIE11 Enterprise Mode and Compatibility View are Additive, not Exclusive
It’s been a busy couple of months in the world of app compat, so I’ve got a backlog of things to cover. Let’s start with an FAQ that I’ve gotten in nearly every conversation I’ve had about web app...
View ArticleThe Impact to the Enterprise of Blocking Out of Date ActiveX Controls
The push to get modern continues, and one big piece of news last week was our announcement that we are adding functionality to block really old versions of specific ActiveX controls, particularly Java....
View ArticleEnterprise Conversations on Internet Explorer Support Changes
We recently announced our plans to change the support status for Internet Explorer. http://blogs.msdn.com/b/ie/archive/2014/08/07/stay-up-to-date-with-internet-explorer.aspx Since that time, I’ve been...
View ArticleActiveX Sprayer: A Real World Adventure with Enterprise Mode for Internet...
Before we released Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11, we ran a fairly large pilot program – we targeted 30 customers, and ended up with more than 90. But there’s still always the question – will...
View ArticleCan the IE Enterprise Mode Site List Replace Compatibility View?
One of the questions I’ve been discussing a lot lately, both internally and with customers, is how to go about disabling the default Compatibility View for the Local Intranet zone. Customers really...
View ArticleThe Case of the Version Check Masquerading as a Feature Check
Got an email asking me to check out a forum application that was “behaving weird” on IE11, while behaving correctly on Chrome and Firefox. I’m always interested in having a look at these things, so I...
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