One of the things I notice quite a bit with the customers I work with is that they have this tendency to mitigate the risk of applications breaking by changing as little of the platform as they can.

One of the areas where this strategy is challenged is when security updates aren’t distinguishable from application updates. Such is the case, frequently,

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I’ve never had a particular interest in being an actor, but if I ever did end up acting for whatever reason, I have a strategy which I’m pretty sure is going to work: I’m going to be Samuel L. Jackson instead of Chris Jackson. Now, I’m not going to do any mad scientist genetic experiments or anything, I’m just going

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Every now and then, I run into a customer situation where the ACT data collection agent causes an application on the desktop to stop working correctly. This happens because the compatibility evaluators in ACT use shims to collect this data, and some applications do not behave correctly when shimmed.

In the past, I have just recommended that the customer don’t use

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I just posted a major update to IEZoneAnalyzer, my IE security zone analysis and comparison utility, over on the Microsoft FDCC/USGCB blog.  Lots of new features, including saving settings so they can be viewed and compared later and on other computers, and export to Excel.  See that blog post for screenshots and the download.

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Getting Law Manager v2.4 to run on Windows 7

Several of my customers run old versions (circa 2003) of a legal case management application called Law Manager, since acquired by Bridgeway. These customers reported that their old versions of Law Manager “don’t work” on Windows 7 and that the vendor did not support running them on Windows 7.

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LUA Buglight 2.1.1 is attached to this blog post and replaces v2.1.  It adds support for Windows 7 SP1 and Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1.  It also fixes a localization bug.

Now that I’ve (pretty much) finished work on the Windows Sysinternals Administrators Reference, maybe I can find time to write documentation for LUA

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We recently announced IE10 Platform Preview 1. Aside from some exciting new features, this platform preview also includes the new IE10 user-agent string:

Overall this represents a natural evolution of

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The first platform preview of IE10 contains many new CSS3 features all developed as implementations of evolving Web standards. In this post, we’ll look at three of those CSS features—CSS3 Grid Layout, Flexible Box Layout, and Multi-column Layout. CSS Grid Layout and Flexible Box

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The April 2011 Cumulative Security Update for Internet Explorer is now available via Windows Update. This security update resolves four privately reported vulnerabilities and one publicly disclosed vulnerability in Internet Explorer. This security update is rated Critical for Internet Explorer 6, Internet Explorer 7, and Internet Explorer 8 on Windows clients; and Moderate for

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IE10 Platform Preview 1, available for download today is the first step in delivering the next wave of progress in native HTML5 support. Web sites and HTML5 run best when they run natively, on a browser optimized for the operating system on your device.

We built IE9 from the ground up for HTML5 and for Windows to deliver

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