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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...
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...
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...
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...
Posted: May 30 2007, 02:21 PM by DonBurn | with no comments
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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...