Entries tagged with windows vista - Channel 9

Gabriel Aul: N-State Chaos and Windows Performance

Charles — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 21:09:00 GMT

Gabriel Aul is a 16 year Microsoft veteran who has always had his hand in the chaotic world of system performance and reliability, from technical product support and testing to being a leader on the Windows performance team. In fact, he was part of the team that developed the original Watson failure reporting tool. He's a dev at heart (once a dev, always a dev) and understands the complexities of Windows as a platform: Windows supports thousands of devices and the thousands of drivers that make them useful to users (devices sometimes have more than one driver, so add that to the complexity quotient...). How can so many devices (drivers) work together successfully (meaning not hosing the system) with so many supported configurations and possibilities for drivers to bring Windows to a screeching halt (think about task scheduling, resource allocation, background processing, foreground processing user mode code execution, kernel mode code execution and the sheer amount of concurrent running code, all over the place, all contending for Windows' attention...).

The world of Windows as platform is incredibly complex (n-state chaotic). It's amazing, actually, that the chaos doesn't lead to more performance and reliability issues. The Windows performance team has some really powerful tools (and an effort called Velocity) that can help ISVs find highly complex performance issues. Gabriel touches on this in this conversation and we address the continued need for more guidance and samples for developers.

One thing is for sure: The developers who write applications and drivers for Windows are great developers. You are craftsman, artists. Windows is a great platform in many ways because of the people who innovate on top of it. You know who you are. Yeah, you. Thank you.

Windows Vista - 64 bit in the Mainstream

Charles — Thu, 14 Aug 2008 16:46:00 GMT

Gary Schare and Bruce Burns sit down (well, sort of, Bruce stands, Gary leans) with us to talk about the sudden uptake of the latest Windows 64 bit client OS. It's very encouraging that Windows 64 is finding its way onto consumer client systems and into mainstream computing. This spike in uptake also poses some challenges for ISVs who are not 64 bit "ready". 32 bit Windows applications should just work on 64 bit Windows, right? Well, sort of. Tune in.

Vince Orgovan: Windows Vista Telemetry

Charles — Mon, 11 Aug 2008 17:21:00 GMT

Windows Vista contains a much improved telemetry system that collects fault data and sends detailed reports to Microsoft that are used in fixing problems that cause apps to hang/crash (of course, this data only reaches us if you choose to send it...). What have we learned so far? What does Microsoft actually do with crash data? How do crash reports turn into bug fixes that make their way up to Windows Update or, more commonly, into third party application updates?

Meet Vince Orgovan. Vince leads the Windows reliability and analysis team who are tasked with analyzing crash data and isolating problems that cause applications to fault on Windows. Vince is very passionate about quality and his team works tirelessly to isolate problems that lead to crashes. Here, we learn about what we've learned from all the telemetry data we've gathered from Vista and Vince provides insights into the state of health of Vista in the wild. This is a great conversation. Enjoy!

Carolyn Napier: Developing for Windows and Playing Pro Football

Charles — Thu, 22 May 2008 21:24:53 GMT

Carolyn Napier is a 9 year Microsoft veteran and she’s actually one of the truly technical women we’ve interviewed on WM_IN in a while (a former programmer she’s now a principal development lead on the Windows Application Platform team within the Core Operating System Division), but watch the whole interview and towards the end you’ll get the real scoop on Carolyn which really excited both Charles and Ritzy: Carolyn is a PROFESSIONAL football player!! Carolyn’s a member of The Seattle Majestics, the local women’s professional football team where she plays a rover on defense and a wide receiver on offense. This isn’t flag football, this is serious hardcore tackle football that is played with NFL’s regular rules (yes, she has a lot of bruises!). And guess what? As an athlete, there are many analogies Carolyn can draw between things that happen on the job and things that happen on the field. Go number 29!

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Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista

joshholmes — Thu, 01 May 2008 20:14:15 GMT

Josh Holmes caught up with team from Yahoo! that's working on the Yahoo! Messenger Application for Vista. We talked a lot about the new feature set that went live yesterday (including an easter egg...) and how the process of developing a WPF application with Developer and Designers went for them.

Sicher Entwickeln: User Account Control

Dariusz — Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:48:53 GMT

"Sicher Entwickeln - Sicherheit geht Entwickler an!" mit der zweiten Episode zum Thema User Account Control. Heute zu Gast Dominick Baier, von der OOP 2008.

User Account Control ist seit Windows Vista fester Bestandteil des Betriebssystems und ist ein wichtiger Sicherheitsmechanismus. Entwickler haben gemischte Gefühle wenn es darum geht mit UAC zu arbeiten, in diesem Podcast beleuchtet Dominick Baier User Account Control und die Entscheidung von Microsoft es einzuführen.

Viel Spaß beim zu hören.

Dariusz

Shawn Richardson: A winding road to Software Security

Charles — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 18:46:21 GMT

From being an economics major and MBA to working with a veterinary ophthalmologist in Florida, Shawn Richardson tell us about her non-linear path into the world of technology. As a security program manager, Shawn is on the Windows Security Assurance team where they make sure the OS, when it goes out the door, is as secure as possible. (Plus, Shawn gets to personally sign off on the security of the OS. Cool!) She’s been at Microsoft over six years, and a time that really stands out for her was when she volunteered to help during the Blaster virus breakout. She realized then the impact we have on our customers, whether it’s our moms or the largest enterprise companies in the world, and helping to do the right thing for our customers no matter what is a very important part of her work philosophy today.

Desktop Music Channel

Synergist — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 04:57:26 GMT

At South by Southwest in Austin, Tamara Phillips of Desktop Music Channel showed Michael Scherotter a Software+Services solution that includes a compelling desktop applications with service-based push technology.
The Desktop Music Channel is a new way for artists and bands to create an interactive desktop experience for their fans.

New Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista Beta

Synergist — Sat, 08 Mar 2008 05:38:42 GMT

Joshua Jacobson, Product Manager for Yahoo! Messenger for Windows Vista gives Michael Scherotter a tour of the latest beta of the product. The coolest feature in this latest version built using WPF is voice visualizations that animate graphically based on the audio. This latest version of Yahoo! Messenger is planned to ship in Q2 2008.

Scott Guthrie: What's Coming for Mix, Part 2: Windows, Web, and RIA

Dan — Thu, 31 Jan 2008 15:52:46 GMT

In the second part of this two-part interview, Scott discusses how this year's Mix (http://visitmix.com/2008/) is going to be even larger than last year's, covering everything from Windows Presentation Foundation improvements to Web development frameworks including Dynamic Data and the MVC Framework, to dropping some hints about upcoming tooling support, and the major improvements in Silverlight 2.0.

You'll also hear Scott talk about the different needs of developers and designers with Expression, how he personally wrote the <asp:Calendar> control, the unique challenges in building controls and how XAML enables unmatched control composability.

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Application Compatibility - Debugging

JasonOlson — Mon, 28 Jan 2008 22:37:30 GMT

In this video, we sit down (well, stand up actually) with Chris Jackson and Gov Maharaj to chat about debugging application compatibility issues (and some of the things Microsoft has done to mitigate typical app compat issues we've run into).

Hopefully we'll get a follow-up video with Gov to talk specifically about debugging tips and tricks.

Apologies for the whiteboarding. I didn't get the best angle on it so it can be hard to read.

Enjoy!

Application Compatibility - MSI Installer Issues

JasonOlson — Fri, 18 Jan 2008 18:35:49 GMT

In this video, we chat with Robert Flaming about application compatibility issues around Windows Installer for Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008. Mark Taylor, from our first Application Compatibility video, sits in as well to fire off some important questions (well, questions that are perhaps more educated than I would ask :P).

So if you work on a product that is using Windows Installer and you are planning on deploying your product to Windows Vista or Windows Server 2008, make sure to tune in! This video is almost all audio (very little need for video), so feel free to download the audio file for that next car ride you have if you wish!

Some links of interest:

Enjoy!

geekSpeak recording: Kate Gregory talks about the Vista Bridge

llangit — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 21:10:58 GMT

In the geekSpeak, C++ expert, Kate Gregory answers questions about the Vista Bridge. This is a little-known, hidden gem found the in the Windows Vista SDK. This show has little or no C++ content and is aimed at .Net dev who want to access cool 'Vista goodness' without the C++/CLI approach.

Here's more about Kate:

Kate Gregory has been the Microsoft regional director (RD) for Toronto since January of 2002, and is a founding partner of Gregory Consulting. She has almost three decades of scientific and engineering programming experience in a variety of programming languages. Her recent programming work is almost exclusively in Microsoft Visual C++ and Visual Basic .NET, on a variety of projects, for both enterprise and independent software vendor (ISV) clients.

Kate is the author of over a dozen books including 'Microsoft Visual C++ .NET 2003 Kick Start' (Sams, 2003). She teaches .NET, XML, UML, and C++, and is in demand as an expert speaker on tours for Microsoft Canada, and sessions in the United States, Europe, and Africa. Kate is a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users Group, a member of the INETA speakers bureau, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. She has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) designation for Visual C++, and won the Regional Director of the year award in 2005.

File Dialog Additions in v2.0 SP1

Daniel Moth — Mon, 17 Dec 2007 12:27:00 GMT

Author: Hi, I am Daniel Moth :-)

Introduction: With v3.5 of the .NET Framework, Microsoft also released Service Pack 1 for .NET Framework v2.0. In this video you can see what is new in SP1 for the File Dialogs in Windows Forms.

Video download: Click on the image to play the video (from a streaming file). If you'd prefer to download the wmv packaged in a zip file, you may do so here .

Mark Russinovich: On Working at Microsoft, Windows Server 2008 Kernel, MinWin vs ServerCore, HyperV,

Charles — Fri, 14 Dec 2007 19:01:00 GMT

I recently sat down with Technical Fellow and SysInternals founder Mark Russinovich to dig a bit into what's new in the Windows Server 2008 kernel. Of course, we talk about many things including HyperV, application virtualization, kernel architecture (not everybody defines an OS kernel in the same way - tune in to understand why this is the case. Mark has his own definition that may not be the same as yours....).

Recently, the MinWin project was in the press after a university video lecture by a Microsoft Windows architect was released on the net. Most people confuse MinWin with Windows Server 2008's ServerCore technology - the confusion stems from the incorrect assumption that ServerCore is a byproduct of the MinWin work. In fact, they are not at all related. Mark explains the differences and hopefully this will end the confusion...

Of course, Mark spends time on the whiteboard in this interview, drawing out the kernel architecture, explaining HyperV, touching on application virtualization (running client applications without having to install them locally - tune in to understand what I mean...).

Channel 9 is and has always been about showcasing the humans behind our technologies in addition to drilling into how we make our products, and of course why we do what we do (in a technical sense). Mark is a huge addition to the Windows family and his technical leadership is already being felt throughout buildings 26 and 43. Mark tells me about how life is going inside the Mothership, what a Techincal Fellow is (it's the highest level of engineering career stage at Microsoft), individual contribution versus management, and more.

As always, it's an honor and pleasure to spend time talking with Mark. He's one of our brightest technical minds and Windows architecture is in very good hands.

Enjoy.

TechNet Radio: System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Deploying Windows in the Enterprise

erickingfrog — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 18:18:00 GMT

Today on TechNet Radio, Jeff Wettlaufer talks with Michael Kelley about System Center Configuration Manager 2007 - Deploying Windows in the Enterprise. Some aspects of Microsoft System Center Configuration Manager 2007 have changed very little from Systems Management Server (SMS) 2003, while some have changed a lot. Also, several new features have been added. We also have our monthly Security Bulletin.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Jeff Wettlaufer - Sr. Technical Product Manager, System Center Configuration Manager 2007, Windows Enterprise Management Division

Michael Kelley - Michael Kelley is a Lead Program Manager for Configuration Manager 2007, responsible for Operating System Deployment, Network Access Protection, and the SDK. Michael has worked on operating system deployment since joining Microsoft in 2003, first on Automated Deployment Services and the Virtual Server Migration Toolkit, and more recently on SMS. Prior to joining Microsoft, Michael had 20 years of experience managing the development of operating systems and business-to-business ecommerce software.

Kai Axford – Senior Security Strategist

Bill Sisk – Security Response Communications Manager

Popflyインタビュー Part 1: 日本の担当者、馬田さんが語るPopfly

c9Japan — Fri, 02 Nov 2007 08:28:27 GMT

* Updated on Dec 3, 2007 for video streaming : 解像度を720*480に変更しました。*
This is Japanese conversation only. English subtitle is not available for this video. Umada-san talks about Popfly with demo.
The video duration is 18 min 55 sec. The video resolution is 720*480 with 564kbps.

Channel 9日本版、再開です。

Microsoftが新たに提供をはじめたPopflyについて、日本の担当者である馬田さんにインタビューしました。18分55秒のビデオです。

Popflyを始めるには、
http://www.popfly.ms/
へアクセスし、お使いのWindows Live IDでSign inしてください。

Popflyについての日本語での説明は、

http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/vstudio/popfly/
をご覧ください。

馬田さんはMSDNブログを展開しており、Visual Studio ExpressやPopflyの情報を提供しています。http://blogs.msdn.com/tumada/　をご覧ください。

Silverlightについては、http://silverlight.net (英語)　や　http://www.microsoft.com/japan/msdn/silverlight/ (日本語)をご覧ください。

Xbox Friends Watch : Silverlight Sidebar Gadget

AdamKinney — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 06:28:58 GMT

Now that HALO 3 has been released, my Xbox 360 and I are hanging out together again, Xbox Live is in the picture too. Why? Best answer could be HALO 3 multiplayer mode, and what's better than multiplayer mode? Multiplayer mode with friends.

This resulted in a perfect opportunity to create a new sidebar gadget, which of course since I'm a big fan of Silverlight I used it as the UI for the gadget. I'm pretty happy with the results and this video is a quick demo of how the gadget works.

Learn more about the gadget...

TechNet Radio: Get Ready for Microsoft Virtualization Technologies with the Assessment and Planning

erickingfrog — Tue, 23 Oct 2007 16:39:36 GMT

Are you ready to evaluate and deploy Microsoft Virtualization Technologies such as Windows Server Virtualization (Viridian), Windows Server Terminal Services and SoftGrid? Start your planning cycle right with Microsoft's Assessment and Planning Solution. This automation tool provides a quick way to assess the right technologies for your virtualization and server consolidation needs through network inventory of servers, workloads, applications, clients and generation of assessment reports and proposals. Listen in as Keith Combs, IT Evangelist from Microsoft, interviews Baldwin Ng, Senior Product Manager, from the Windows Server Marketing/Solution Accelerators Team about the features and availability of the Assessment and Planning Solution

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Keith Combs – IT Pro Evangelist

Baldwin Ng - Sr. Product Manager, Windows Server Marketing, Solution Accelerators Team

Network Access Protection with MSIT

adambomb — Wed, 10 Oct 2007 21:35:28 GMT

After months of cajoling, Adam was finally able to convince Jeff Sigman from the NAP team and Brent Atkison from MSIT to sit still for 30 minutes to talk about why we created NAP, and how we went about deploying it worldwide at Microsoft. Ah, who am I kidding. Jeff's been asking me for months to put his blue anime hair up on Channel9. Here you go Jeff. Persistance pays off.
Network Access Protection is a new feature in Windows Server 2008 that allows you to enforce computer health requirements before allowing machines to communicate on the network. It's the answer to the question "do I trust that this machine is patched and won't infect other machines on my network?"
These guys have done some pretty impressive stuff. The NAP team worked with a list of partners as long as your arm to make sure NAP will play nicely with whatever switch hardware you've invested in. Brent shares some impressive sizing guidelines for implementing NAP: Microsoft turned reporting and deferred enforcement on 120,000 machines worldwide, using a very small number of servers. Very small. Less than 3. Total help desk calls as a result? Also a very small number. Oh, and he did that deployment using beta builds of Longhorn Server 2008.

TechNet Radio: System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Desired Configuration Management

erickingfrog — Tue, 25 Sep 2007 14:25:14 GMT

On this episode of TechNet Radio, we learn about a new feature in System Center Configuration Manager, Desired Configuration Management. Desired Configuration Management (DCM) allows organizations to define standards for how their systems should be configured and ensure compliance with these standards.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Jeff Wettlaufer – Technical Product Manager

Jeffrey Sutherland – Senior Program Manager

Mike Nash: Windows Vista Status Report and Announcing SP1 Beta 1

Rory — Mon, 24 Sep 2007 20:20:12 GMT

Mike Nash is a corporate vice president in charge of Windows client operating systems product management. Previously, he ran the security team that created the new security systems and features in XPSP2. Charles got a chance to spend some time with him recently to have a very candid conversation about Windows Vista and to learn about Windows Vista SP1 (What’s in it? Will it contain lots of new features like XPSP2? Etc…). Of course, with Vista being out in the real world for several months, Charles wanted to get a sense of how the OS is doing in terms of adoption and, equally as interesting to an OS head, how are the new Vista subsystems doing (that is, is Vista proving to be as stable as we thought it was going to be, as secure? – the data from the Vista telemetry systems will answer these questions). So, sit back, relax and get and enjoy this Vista status report interview and learn a little bit about Vista SP1.

TechNet Radio: System Center Configuration Manager 2007: Deployment

erickingfrog — Tue, 18 Sep 2007 16:56:24 GMT

In this episode of TechNet Radio, we discuss System Center Configuration Manager 2007 deployment. What’s changed? Learn about internet based Client Management. We also discuss deployment from existing SMS 2003 and recommend some upgrade strategies.

Eric Ostrowski - Your Show Host and TechNet Radio Producer

Jeff Wettlaufer – Technical Product Manager

Wally Mead – Senior Program Manager