Awesome! No more WGA/Kill Switch!
From ZDNet's Ed Bott: The WGA kill switch will be gone in Vista SP1.My opinion as a Windows employee? Good riddance.WGA is DRM for operating systems. It Does Not Work. People will copy Windows Vista,...
View ArticleNo dev at Microsoft looks like this
By now, you've all seen The Programmer's Dress Code.No (or very few) devs look like this at Microsoft, for some reason. It is not that we hire people on looks. We need everybody - dev, test and PM - to...
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Want your Windows Vista bug fixed?
Do you hit the same annoying Windows Vista crashing bug day after day?Please, please, please click the 'Send information' button when you see this crash dialog.Why?If in the very unlikely event that...
View ArticleAnother one?
We're building yet another UI platform?According to istartedsomething.com, we have:Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) - A managed UI platform. Bloated, slow. We spent a bunch of time in 2006 trying...
View ArticleiPhone and Exchange and Microsoft
This is interesting - Apple is hiring people to work on Exchange support in iPhone...This will, obviously, make the iPhone much more palatable to your corporate IT department...(This is interesting,...
View ArticleIn this Slashdot post...
...about Firefox in large corporations:Only this comment is worth reading.I used to read Slashdot every day. Now it is more like once a year.
View ArticleBig changes
In almost every Windows OS release so far, we've changed something major in the OS subsystems, to improve the Windows infrastructure. And that generally screws up application or driver...
View ArticleI don't think...
...I've ever been this insulted.Take a look at the 'marketing' coming out of the Microsoft marketing guys in the past couple of years. Not the brightest bulbs in the box.
View ArticleThe registry
Just finished reading the comments in my 'Big changes' post; there are some interesting comments about the registry in there.Could the registry be replaced? Sure, in software, pretty much any change is...
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Mehworld
Due to a freak snowstorm (in Seattle!) I spent most of the day on the couch - no commute to work for me today.Which means I spent most of the day looking at the Macworld announcements (A Tablet PC is a...
View ArticleWho copied who?
(Or is it Who copied whom? I never can tell.)I always found the sheer amount of human effort in the Microsoft-copied-Apple interweb flamewars really funny.First, the accusations: Microsoft stole X. And...
View ArticleTry this instead..
Two timesavers when Windows misbehaves:(This is obviously just some random person's opinion, and not advice from any major software company.)Logoff/Logon, instead of rebootingWindows occasionally gets...
View ArticleSecCanWest
I haven't been able to get complete details from the whole SecCanWest thing; so Windows Vista wasn't compromised, but Adobe Flash was? *Sigh*Security is very very hard.(Don't worry, Adobe: There is an...
View ArticleOK...so...
aka "How to never by annoyed by UAC again"My last post was a lame April Fool's joke. I wasn't seriously proposing that we replace the UAC prompt with a Captcha. It would kinda sorta make sense in some...
View ArticleCollapsing?
This just in from Computerworld:April 10, 2008 (Computerworld) Calling the situation "untenable" and describing Windows as "collapsing," a pair of Gartner analysts yesterday said Microsoft Corp. must...
View ArticleIt is a spoof...
...of our crappy internal 'team event' videos - the cheese factor in these videos have been increasing over the past couple of years (we lost major acting talent when Brian Valentine left), and (from...
View ArticleWindows 7 Won't Have Compact "MinWin" Kernel
From SlashdotCalm down.MinWin is not some magical new kernel. It is Windows with every single feature stripped out - It is the base ingredient of any version of Windows. (I forget the exact size. But...
View ArticleHere's an idea...
A friend of mine, yesterday:"If software crashes and loses my data more than 10 times, I should get the next version for free."
View ArticleDownload this, install it
Windows Search 4.0The search engine in Windows Vista is not as good as it could be. This one is much better. Download it, install it. You will not be sorry.
View ArticleNew York Times gets it wrong
Windows could use rush of fresh airBeginning as a thin veneer for older software code, it has become an obese monolith built on an ancient frame. Adding features, plugging security holes, fixing bugs,...
View ArticleNow *that's* debugging
Occasionally, you only fix one bug a day. But, you have a good story to tell.Several notes:"One of the goals of the operating system's designers is to not allow programs running in user space to ever...
View Article20 Features Windows 7 Should Include
(Turns out I forgot to publish this last week...)According to Australian computer expert Vito CassisiMy opinion:20. Modularised OSThe great thing about being modular is that the OS can be modified...
View ArticleRewrite
I was going to comment on this post from some other guy's blog but holy hell is it hard to read. Lemme see if I can rewrite.Take 2:Thanks for all the feedback that we have been getting.That much of it...
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