Someone asked me today about some information and links about the Windows 7 networking stack especially regarding IPv6. I’m going to cache my response here for future reference and updating: Generally speaking Windows 7 shares the same networking stack architecture as vista plus the following stuff: DirectAccess IPv6 transition technology improvements IPTLS transport BranchCache Network [...]
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Windows 7 Networking Information
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Tech on November 13, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Silverlight, Netflix and Tech Support
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious, Tech on December 8, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
In response to some news from Netflix regarding the need for less specialized tech support after going to silverlight, the correct answer is “Duh”. Doing your own custom ActiveX control means a lot of exposure to install and platform issues goes away or becomes someone else’s tech support problem.
Open a specific set of Perf Counters in Perfmon
Posted in Microsoft, NoteToSelf, Tech on October 29, 2008 | 1 Comment »
This is from my stupid demo trick series (okay, this is the first in such a series, and may be the last….). With a recent Windows 7 demo I was doing there is a set of perf counters I wished to show quickly in a report view. Setting it up is a many click process: [...]
DRM Thoughts
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious on August 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Saw yet another comment on a blog about Vista and DRM, and thought I could contribute a few distinctions: DRM Supporting Features This refers to a set of technologies that help enable practical DRM, but aren’t DRM themselves. This includes stuff like APIs that tell applications that if the output path for audio or video [...]
Creating a DL in Outlook from Excel with Names and Email
Posted in Microsoft on July 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I helped out a friend the other day with a problem that he had getting a list of names and email addresses from Excel into a new Outlook DL. The key tricks are to create a formula in Excel that formats the name and email into something like “Bob & Alice Smith (bobalice@smith.org)”, select all [...]
More on the IE8/Standards fun
Posted in Intresting, Microsoft, Software - Religious, Tech on March 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I really enjoy Joel’s writing. He does a nice job explaining the state of affairs: Martian Headsets – Joel on Software
All New Code?
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Technical, Vista on January 31, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Why is it that people believe that every release of Windows is entirely new code? I’ve never seen anyone from Microsoft ever claim any such thing, but every release I see people talking about the claim. Having said that, in every OS release almost every component gets touched if just to fix potential security vulnerabilities [...]
They are just more critical these days
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious on November 2, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
Since the launch of Vista, I’ve simply been amazed and the frequency and severity of criticism Vista has received. I humbly accept the places where the complaints make sense to me (Performance/Compatibility; and in many cases I grok the reason compatibility was broken), but much of it, like the DRM hype is just astonishing to [...]
Live Maps: The Little Things
Posted in Fun, Microsoft on November 1, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
While Live Maps haven’t copied the eye-popping drag and reroute feature of Google maps, there is a number of really cool improvements in the latest release. The Live search blog has a list of ten improvements that haven’t got the press of other features like the “model your own 3d building on a map” one. [...]
Vista
Posted in Microsoft, Software - Religious, Vista on September 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
So I’ve started to see some press getting way down on Vista about things I haven’t experienced and decided to go and see if I could figure out what was going on. First off, let me summarize my house’s trip to vista. Machines 3 older machines 1 brand new nice 64 bit box Issues Memory [...]
