Author: davete

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 dig into the capabilities of Windows Intune as well as explain what is going on…

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 collaboration with the Silverlight product team and here are the major new…

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 instead of other web…

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 to what you currently see with Firefox’s solution when you close the browser…

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 Quick Details blue block to choose the language for downloading the paper. Here are the following documents which are…

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, what features in Windows 7 are security and which ones are not, and Windows…

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 business value of Windows Mobile phones for IT Pros. Microsoft My Phone -…

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 focused on IT Pros and consumer (since us…