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Chris Jackson on Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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 Aug 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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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:18 PM

Developers, and the people responsible for the productivity of those developers, have long known that code reuse was som...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:18 PM

Moving people off of older browsers onto newer ones is something we have been pushing hard for at Microsoft.

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:18 PM

There have been a number of efforts we’ve been going through lately to promote users running modern versions of Internet...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

When I talk to folks who are extraordinary engineers, but who are struggling to extend their impact, the #1 recommendati...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

Well, the Windows 8 Consumer Preview just released, so it’s time to start fielding questions about Windows 8 app compat.

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

Greetings, App Compat Army! I’m busy putting the final touches on my presentations for TechEd North America, and wanted ...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

For those of you who have attended any of my conference sessions for about the past 6 months, I’ve been including a segm...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

I discovered this little function in Excel today: =NETWORKDAYS(TODAY(),DATE(2014,4,8)) Pop that in to Microsoft Excel, a...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

Just like in other scientific pursuits, in computing it turns out to be pretty important to validate your assumptions wh...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:17 PM

A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to get on the phone and chat for a bit with Carl and Richard from .

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:16 PM

Part of the challenge of innovating is that innovation necessarily means change, and change necessarily means breaking o...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:16 PM

My blog sure has been quiet lately, but that doesn’t mean I haven’t been writing anything! A lot of my focus has been on...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:16 PM

Right before the Thanksgiving holiday, I picked up a new Nokia Lumia 920 and had the week free to play around with it.

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:16 PM

A few years ago, AppDNA and ChangeBase (listed alphabetically, so please don’t infer anything from the ordering, though ...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:15 PM

Another new operating system means another new LUA Buglight! My friend Aaron recently released an update to LUA Buglight...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:15 PM

Just in time for the holidays, on December 7, 2012 (tomorrow as I write this), 1:00pm Central, I’ll be chatting with my ...

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Chris Jackson on Aug 14 2018 04:15 PM

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