Recently, I interviewed Microsoft storyteller Steve Clayton about all of the natural user interfaces currently available and some of the natural user interfaces we can coming in the future. There is lots of very cool things coming from Microsoft which...

There are a couple of videos I created and released recently which all relate to this concept – how can your organization effectively deliver applications to various devices like iPads, Android devices, Windows PCs (even “bring your own”...

It’s clearer now IMO that undisputedly Internet Explorer is the only real browser for Enterprises now that Firefox is on such a short release cycle like Google Chrome. I mentioned the support lifecycle and patching as one of the major reasons in...

At TechEd NorthAmerica I interviewed Mike Chan about the next version of Forefront Endpoint Protection 2012 and System Center Configuration Manager 2012.  He let us know about some of the technical details of what’s coming and gave insight into the...

I did an interview with Paul Bryan on the Windows Phone product team at TechEd North America about the productivity features such as Lync integration, server search, conversation view, and pinnable email folders. After covering the productivity features...

So the base Internet Explorer (IE) Virtual PC (VPC) images were due for a refresh and I signed up for the job.  I thought it would be best to not only simply patch the images and place them up on the site, but to also reassess how we could optimize...

I interviewed the program manager responsible for the privacy features in IE 9, such as the IE 9 Tracking protection feature and we get into how it works, why you need it, etc. This is the updated feature to IE 8’s Filtering protection feature....

I recently interviewed the Group Program Manager for Windows Intune and thought I’d share – it’s really cool stuff, especially for small to medium sized shops who have a lot of remote workers or no/weak management story in place. We...

A few days ago the new version of the Silverlight 4 Deployment Guide was made available for download. This guide is great for any enterprise who wants to deploy, manage, or troubleshoot Silverlight version 1-4 in their corporation. I led this effort in...

When I say IE 8 is the most secure browser out of the box, the natural inclination most people have is marketing FUD.  I do truly believe in the statement and tell this to my own family as one of, if not the, main reason they should be using IE 8...

In Internet Explorer 8, you might wonder how to reopen/restore your last browsing session – especially when you had multiple tabs opened.  In IE 7, when you closed the browser with multiple tabs, you’d get this window prompt: This is very similar...

Just letting you know there is updated localized guidance for IE 8 in Simplified Chinese, French, German, Hindi, Japanese, Portuguese (Brazilian), Russian, and Spanish (Traditional).  Unless noted, you use the “Change Language” pop-up menu in the...

I interviewed Mark Russinovich again (see my 1st interview with him in his office the future of Sysinternals, Security, Windows ) at TechEd EMEA in Berlin.  This time we chatted about the new tools coming out from Sysinternals like the Disk2VHD tool...

Windows Mobile 6.5 launched today, now being referred to in short as “Windows phone” moving forward.  Some of the key benefits I see from the consumer side are listed below.  I posted a detailed text post on TechNet Edge which describes the...

I did an interview with Chris Bryant who gave me a cool tour of the new Office Web applications. Finally an answer to Google Docs. I’m looking forward to using these!

On September 18th you can attend locally or interact live via Live Meeting to learn about some of the core information you want to know about the next wave of Windows products – Windows 7 and Windows 2008 R2.  I will presenting a session on IE 8...

In this interview with Mike Chan, I help clarify when you might want to utilize Forefront Protection for Exchange versus Forefront Online Protection for Exchange – or use both. Most of the video is spent white boarding out how things work between FPE...

I couldn't find any good search results on how to remove an active partition on a Windows system (and this is not in the disk management GUI) and eventually figured this out on my own, so I thought I'd share. Of course, this is only useful if you have...

Ever wanted to not have to scroll through endless expansions of bite-sized content on the TechNet library and just download a document of only the content you want instead? I know this has been frustrating for me in the past and when I brought it up to...

There are so many virtualization options available from Microsoft, which one do you use when? We cleared this up in a short interview and addressed how these options might help you remediate your legacy applications over to Windows 7. Also, we just launched...

I interviewed Ralf on the Office 2010 team who showed a demo of some of the cool new features in Word and Outlook 2010 as well as answered some relevant questions for IT Pros – now that the Technical Preview is out there we can show it.  The full...

I finished creating the Silverlight deployment guide awhile ago, but after a number of reviews, revisions, and updates it is finally available for download.  This guide is applicable to all versions of Silverlight, including Silverlight 3. ...

When you create a policy with a custom ADMX template which uses a registry key outside of the standard 4 recommended locations (below) and open up your group policy editor using gpedit.msc, the policy will not be listed and you will get no error. The...

Below is a list of all of the Silverlight 1, 2, and 3 installation switches available and their description. This will be included in the Silverlight Enterprise Deployment guide v2 which I’m writing - to be released soon. In the mean time, here they are...

I interviewed Kymberlee Price, IE security PM responsible for future research with ClickJacking.  She gives us insight into what research the team is doing in this area as well other great insights into IE security. For a complete breakdown of the...