Data Science Suggests You Upgrade Your Browser to Be More Secure
There’s a lot of activity going on now that we are in the home stretch of trying to get everyone upgraded to the latest version of the browser. For example, we’ve just published a couple of blog...
View ArticleShould I Enable Enterprise Mode Through the Tools Menu or an XML File?
We are in the final stretch for support for older versions of IE on Windows – January is now right around the corner! We’re seeing customers making great progress, but some are still struggling with...
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Windows 10 App Compat Risk: Are You Behaving Commensurately?
The App Compat Army has had a bit of a break (well, at least I have), but there’s just no holding back the progress of technology (and the fear that this generates)! We’ve done a really terrific job of...
View ArticleThe Windows 10 Browser Conundrum
One of the most common questions I’ve been seeing from folks who are migrating to Windows 10 is: “How do I go about hiding all references to Edge / removing it entirely / putting Internet Explorer...
View ArticleWindows 10 App Compat Strategy
I wrote up an article that I’ve been sharing with internal teams, and the feedback I’ve been getting has been that we should share this one more broadly. So, here’s my attempt to do exactly that. This...
View ArticleMy First Windows 10 Shim – Quicken 2017 on Build 15002
My luck finally ran out today – so far, I have had zero apps broken by Windows 10 build upgrades, but my streak ended today. Not surprisingly, it wasn’t actually a problem with Windows 10 changing...
View ArticleMitigating Shims as a Persistence Mechanism
App compat shims are a terrific tool for enabling you to modernize your operating system. By resolving app compat issues, this tool has enabled many, many customers to update to the latest version of...
View ArticleDefining Your Device Taxonomy
One of the most impactful blog posts I’ve seen is Aaron Margosis’ brilliant Sticking With Well Known and Proven Solutions. The philosophy here is spot on, and something we try to echo within Windows....
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Defining App Tranches to Drive Your App Compat Testing
Way back in 2013 (wow, was it really that long ago?) I introduced a key taxonomy for testing apps:...
View ArticleImplementing the Right Inertia in your Windows 10 Deployment Process:...
One of the things I have noticed in my conversation with customers on deploying updates to Windows (whether quality or feature updates) is that the systems designed for change management are designed...
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