Mark on Channel 9 Cloud Cover: Check out the most recent Cloud Cover episode, where Mark is the guest and he talks about the Windows Azure fabric controller, cyber terrorism and his novel, Zero Day.
VMMap v3.02: This release fixes several bugs.
Mark’s Blog Nominated for “Niney Award”: The first annual Niney Awards nominations are out and Mark’s Blog is nominated in the Favorite Blog About Microsoft category. Vote early and vote often!
ProcDump v3.02: This update to ProcDump, a command-line utility that can capture process dumps based on performance or behavioral triggers, adds more information to the minidump plus dump type, and ignores breakpoint exceptions unless overridden with the new -b switch. It also leverages the installed Debugging Tools for Windows debug DLL, enabling it to save more
... read more
TechEd sessions are available for on-demand viewing. Here are some recent ones that Chris Jackson (The App Compat Guy) and I have delivered recently on Application Compatibility and more…
What Everyone Should Know about Application Compatibility(Aaron Margosis & Chris Jackson)http://www.msteched.com/2010/NorthAmerica/WCL204
Inside the Application Compatibility Toolkit 5.6: Finding, Testing and Fixing Applications on Windows 7(Chris Jackson)http://www.msteched.com/2010/Europe/WCL404
The
... read more
To deliver on the industry promise of “same markup,” browsers must implement features in the same way. Open Web standards and their associated public test suites provide the means for making sure this happens. Using the same process for tests as for the standards themselves is so important that Microsoft contributes to this industry effort in many ways, such as
... read more
The February 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves two privately reported vulnerabilities and two publicly disclosed vulnerabilities in Internet Explorer. The vulnerabilities could allow remote code execution if a user views a specially crafted Web page using Internet Explorer or if a user
... read more
One engineering objective of Internet Explorer 9 is to build the world’s fastest browser. Browser performance matters to everyone. Consumers, enterprises, developers, and the technology industry share a desire for a faster and more capable Web platform.
To build the world’s fastest browser we focused on the real world Web performance metrics that matter to customers. Web performance is a
... read more
Previous posts described the importance of developing sites with feature detection and debugging a site’s behavior in older versions of Internet Explorer using IE’s browser and document modes. Testing production Web sites against multiple browsers and multiple browser versions is a reality of Web development. IE9’s emulation of older IE document modes
... read more
A Web without video would be a dull Web and consumers, developers and businesses want video on the Web to just work. As an industry we know this and have, until recently, been on a path to make this a reality with HTML5 by integrating video into Web pages more natively using H.264. There is more detail and discussion below
... read more
We’re proud to announce the first ever PowerShell Deep Dive conference! This event will take place at TEC 2011 in Las Vegas, April 18-19.
PowerShell Deep Dive is meant to provide a deep technical and strategic engagement within the PowerShell Community. Attendees will interact one-on-one with presenters, team members and other key members of the PowerShell Community. It will facilitate a
... read more
Just a geek who loves to make his computer run extremely fast and reliably :-)
