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XKCD tries Windows 7 and loves it!

    Well I thought it was cute :). Read More...
Posted Friday, January 09, 2009 10:14 AM by LarryOsterman | 7 Comments
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Why do people think that a server SKU works well as a general purpose operating system?

Sometimes the expectations of our customers mystify me.   One of the senior developers at Microsoft recently complained that the audio quality on his machine (running Windows Server 2008) was poor. To me, it’s not surprising.  Server SKUs are Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 08, 2009 10:17 AM by LarryOsterman | 31 Comments
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Fixing a customer problem: “No Audio Device is Installed” when launching sndvol on Windows Vista

Yesterday someone forwarded me an email from one of our DirectShow MVPs – he was having problems playing audio on his Windows Vista machine.   Fortunately David (the MVP) had done most of the diagnostic work – the symptoms he saw were that he was Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 06, 2009 11:26 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments

"The Story about Ping", someone else's book review

I was looking up old favorite children's books on Amazon the other day and I ran into one of my childhood favorites: The Story about Ping , a family about ducks living on the Yangtze river in China... I eventually scrolled down and noticed the first review Read More...
Posted Friday, December 05, 2008 11:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 4 Comments
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The ducking whitepaper is now online

I just got an email indicating that the powers that be have just published the Ducking (automatic volume adjustment for communications applications) whitepaper that I mentioned during my PDC Talk . It's the whitepaper entitled "Stream Attenuation in Windows Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 25, 2008 2:47 PM by LarryOsterman | 12 Comments

I get more spam :)

I just received this phishing letter, I liked it simply because it was so remarkably brazen: -- Dear Webmail User, This message was sent automatically by a program on Webmail which periodically checks the size of inbox, where new messages are received. Read More...
Posted Friday, November 21, 2008 4:58 PM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments

What’s wrong with this code, part 25 – the answers

Yesterday I described a very real bug in some of the Windows UI. CControlLayout::CControlLayout( const HWND hWndControl, const HWND hWndDlg) : m_hWnd(hWndControl) , m_hWndDlg(hWndDlg) { // Get the parent (dialog) rect, and the control rect ::GetClientRect(m_hWndDlg, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 18, 2008 4:09 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments

What’s wrong with this code, part 25

Wow, 25 already. This one’s pretty straightforward. Once again, it’s a UI issue, since I’ve been spending most of my time doing UI lately. In this particular case, the code comes from the constructor for an auto-layout class that is used internally in Read More...
Posted Monday, November 17, 2008 8:43 AM by LarryOsterman | 10 Comments

If you live in the US, don’t forget to vote today

It’s a really big deal, regardless of your political persuasion.   Already the MSFT internal mailing lists have been filled with people asking “how long are the lines at my polling place”.  The good news is that the times appear to be pretty Read More...
Posted Tuesday, November 04, 2008 10:26 AM by LarryOsterman | 11 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 4 (and finale)

Ok, the PDC’s finally over and I’ve had a chance to decompress a bit.  So here’s my day 4 report, only a few days late :). I got up at 6:15, finished packing and schlepped my stuff to the convention center for my tech check at 7:40.   At the Read More...
Posted Monday, November 03, 2008 12:13 PM by LarryOsterman | 6 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 3

I got finished late yesterday, so sorry this post is coming so late. Yesterday was yet another blast.  I got up, had a “real” breakfast in the hotel buffet (I’m not sure it was actually better than the breakfast at the PDC though :().  Then Read More...
Posted Thursday, October 30, 2008 9:11 AM by LarryOsterman | 9 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day Two

Wow, it’s midnight on day two. What a day. I started the day at the Win7 keynote. It was amazing how the product was received by our customers – I’m really gratified that people seemed to like what they saw. You know you’re in a group of geeks when the Read More...
Posted Wednesday, October 29, 2008 12:28 AM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
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PDC 2008, Day 1

Wow, today’s been a long day. For whatever reason, I woke up at 4 AM and wasn’t able to get back to sleep :(. On the other hand, I did get this cool picture from outside my window: When I got to the convention center I discovered that they were right Read More...
Posted Monday, October 27, 2008 9:02 PM by LarryOsterman | 1 Comments
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I'm in LA!

I just got into LA and checked into my hotel for the PDC.  The flight was uneventful, while I was flying down, there was a most amazing sunset (I was in an isle seat so the picture’s kinda blurry – I didn’t have anything to stabilize the shot and Read More...
Posted Sunday, October 26, 2008 10:32 PM by LarryOsterman | 3 Comments
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Chrome is fixing the file download bug…

I just noticed that Ryan Naraine has written that Google’s fixed the file download bug in Chrome . This is awesome, but there’s one aspect of the fix that concerns me. According to the changelog : This CL adds prompting for dangerous types of files (executable) Read More...
Posted Monday, October 20, 2008 2:17 PM by LarryOsterman | 13 Comments
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