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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

One of the things I have noticed in my conversation with customers on deploying updates to Windows (whether quality or f...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

Way back in 2013 (wow, was it really that long ago?) I introduced a key taxonomy for testing apps:https://blogs.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

One of the most impactful blog posts I’ve seen is Aaron Margosis’ brilliant Sticking With Well Known and Proven Solution...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

App compat shims are a terrific tool for enabling you to modernize your operating system.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

My luck finally ran out today - so far, I have had zero apps broken by Windows 10 build upgrades, but my streak ended to...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

Learn how to take a pragmatic app compat approach, and keep your Windows devices up to date.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:21 PM

One of the most common questions I’ve been seeing from folks who are migrating to Windows 10 is: “How do I go about hidi...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

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 t...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

We are in the final stretch for support for older versions of IE on Windows – January is now right around the corner! We...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

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 ...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

You may have noticed by now that Enterprise Mode continues to evolve – and as such, the tooling continues to evolve as w...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

As a reminder, to anyone who hasn’t noticed yet, we will be ending support for anything but the latest version of Intern...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

Got an email asking me to check out a forum application that was “behaving weird” on IE11, while behaving correctly on C...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

While Microsoft isn’t the final arbiter on whether an application is “compatible” with any given version of Windows (see...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

Back in December, I blogged about the failure of Weight Watchers Mobile on IE10, which affects peoples’ fancy new Window...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:20 PM

The flurry of “hurrah!” emails was my cue that the fix removing m.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

One of the most important decisions you can make when it comes to running an app compat project is to determine how much...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

While at TechEd a few weeks ago, I had a chance to sit down with my friend Joey and chat about where we are with app com...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

Another browser, another version check crisis… So, like many of my esteemed nerdly readers, I pushed “go” on upgrading t...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

It looks like, back in January, Converter Technologies decided to post a rebuttal to my July 2012 article on The Mathema...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

With Internet Explorer 11, we invested a lot in improving the overall compatibility of web sites.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

A few years back, I ran some analysis on the shims that were applied to applications (both for commercial applications i...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

For the past several years, I’ve been having an ongoing conversation with Richard Campbell on all kinds of technology re...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

It’s been a busy couple of months in the world of app compat, so I’ve got a backlog of things to cover.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:19 PM

The push to get modern continues, and one big piece of news last week was our announcement that we are adding functional...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:18 PM

We recently announced our plans to change the support status for Internet Explorer.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:18 PM

Before we released Enterprise Mode for Internet Explorer 11, we ran a fairly large pilot program – we targeted 30 custom...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:18 PM

One of the questions I’ve been discussing a lot lately, both internally and with customers, is how to go about disabling...

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:18 PM

I always like to take the opportunity to do a favor for a friend.

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Chris Jackson on 08-14-2018 04:18 PM

I wanted to document a bit of detail about managing the Program Compatibility Assistant, a bit of technology we added fo...

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