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  • 24 Hours of Firsts

    The 24 hours I'm currently writing this post in are all about firsts. First I've just got back from my first ever live gig, and first ever experience of Metallica live! I've been to the Sheffield Arena for the latest leg of Metallica's Death Magnetic tour, it was f***ing AWESOME!!!! Can't...
    Posted to Andrew Westgarth by on Sat, Feb 28 2009
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  • Windows Live ID to finally support OpenID

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    Posted to CraigN by on Mon, Oct 27 2008
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  • Fixing WinHEC - Part 2

    In my last posting, I presented how to fix WinHEC from the attendee's point of view. This post will look at why it is critical for Microsoft to get it right. For the last 10 years, the Windows group has been waging a war to improve driver quality. In that time, many great tools and initiatives have...
    Posted to WinDrvr by DonBurn on Sat, Feb 16 2008
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  • Fixing WinHEC

    As anyone who has been to WinHEC over the years knows, its content swings between being a heavy technical conference and being a marketing conference. This year’s WinHEC is scheduled for November 4-7, 2008, again in Los Angeles, California. I do not expect much from this venue, since neither of the two...
    Posted to WinDrvr by DonBurn on Fri, Jan 18 2008
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  • Improving the documentation

    If you haven’t heard, Microsoft is now updating the WDK documentation monthly and is now providing a way to download these updated docs to your computer. This update, just for documentation, can be found at http://www.microsoft.com/whdc/DevTools/WDK/WDKdocs.mspx Microsoft should be congratulated for...
    Posted to WinDrvr by DonBurn on Tue, Aug 28 2007
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  • Document explorer versus useful data

    There is a trend in the tools coming out of Microsoft that is driving me nuts and in my opinion significantly hurting productivity. This trend is the shrinking of the amount of data that appears on the display and requiring more mouse clicks to get there. For driver writers this trend is most obvious...
    Posted to WinDrvr by DonBurn on Wed, May 30 2007
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  • Bleeding edge and far from it

    I am just back from WinHEC and while there I realized that many people including a number from Microsoft don’t distinguish developing for the leading edge from living there. I am known as a guy who has done a number of things that Redmond had said “Windows is not capable of doing” and technologies that...
    Posted to WinDrvr by DonBurn on Sun, May 20 2007
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