Jonathan Hardwick
Improving the performance of Visual Studio
Optimizing managed C# vs. native C++ code
Raymond Chen (aka "fixed more Windows bugs than you've had hot dinners") and Rico Mariani (aka "Mr...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/20/2005
XBox 360 vs. Sony PS3
Major Nelson of XBox Live has just posted four articles comparing the XBox 360 to the Sony PS3: part...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/20/2005
Lots of LUA links
[I originally posted this two weeks ago, but it got lost when they had to roll back the servers, and...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/19/2005
Problems with our blogging platform
Only very short posts go through. Betsy is on the case. Normal service will be resumed as soon as...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/19/2005
Video from MMS 2005
Larry Gregory has posted a great video from the Microsoft Management Summit — well worth watching,...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/17/2005
MSN Desktop Search is out of beta - go get it!
The MSN Search team have just announced that their desktop search tool is out of beta. You can read...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/16/2005
The MMS 2005 conference bag
I’ve had a couple requests for a picture of the MMS 2005 conference bag that I enthused over:
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 05/07/2005
Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day 2
Yesterday was naming day! The Project Formerly Known As Indy is now: System Center Capacity Manager...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/20/2005
Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day 0
If everything had gone according to plan I'd have arrived in Las Vegas by now, with a couple of...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/17/2005
Microsoft Management Summit 2005: Day -2
As you can tell from the title, I’m starting this series of blog posts a little earlier than planned...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/15/2005
New Tablet PC feature on Channel 9 - ink-enabled posts!
Charles and the gang just showed off a new feature for the first birthday of the Channel 9 community...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/14/2005
Mark all as read in Outlook - and why the long tail means that web search engines beat Office help
Cameron Reilly found my post on keyboard shortcuts in Outlook while trying to figure out a better...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/12/2005
Blogging at MMS 2005
Rod Trent asks if anyone will be blogging at MMS 2005 next week. I certainly will! In fact, I’ve...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/12/2005
Ohhhh, I want Microsoft Forums for my product, too...
Jim Glass just announced Microsoft Forums, the next links in the Microsoft developer division’s...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/07/2005
News about MSN Desktop Search and Non-Admin wikis
Time for a couple of wiki news items that I've been saving up for a while. In a “one small step”...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/07/2005
Category feed URLs all changed - sorry
As Josh Ledgard and Brian Johnson have noted, the upgrade of blogs.msdn.com to Community Server 1.0...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/05/2005
New comment policy on this blog - thanks to Betsy and Scott!
Congrats to Betsy and her team on completing the second half of the March Blog Massacre:...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 04/03/2005
We have a new product name, and it's...
…worth more than my job to tell you what it is. You’re going to have to wait until MMS 2005 to find...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/30/2005
https://del.icio.us gets funding (at last!)
Congrats to Joshua Schachter for (finally :-)) announcing that he’s taken the money and will now...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/29/2005
More details about Indy
I’d already posted a list of sessions for the “criss-cross” pre-event day at next month’s Microsoft...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/22/2005
Where to learn more about Indy if you're NOT going to MMS 2005
A reader asks: What about those of us that cannot attend MMS? Is there anything available that...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/18/2005
The Ides of March - a bad time for bloggers
This has been a bad time for a couple of bloggers that I read. First Jeremy Wright was refused entry...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/18/2005
Come check out our new capacity-planning product at MMS 2005
Ok, so we still don’t have a name, but we did just hit feature-complete for our product’s first...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/17/2005
New in this month's management updates: Windows Update Services and System Center Reporting Manager
Earlier today I posted this month’s updates to the Management Updates blog. There’s news about MMS...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 03/02/2005
Maxthon joins the RSS sidebar party
Right now Maxthon is my tabbed browser of choice – it’s slick, rock-solid, and uses the IE6...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/26/2005
Refresh build of Microsoft Windows AntiSpyware beta
Microsoft’s antispyware team made version 1.0.509 available for download a couple of hours ago. You...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/17/2005
How to run as a non-administrator - announcing a new community site
I’ve set up a new community web site at https://nonadmin.editme.com. It’s a place where anyone can...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/04/2005
This month's updates on SMS, MOM, and now Virtual Server
I’ve posted this month’s roll-ups of all the news and announcements about SMS and MOM on the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/03/2005
More Microsoft wikis: Getting Things Done, PatternShare, and a player to be announced later...
I spent Saturday night setting up a new wiki for an idea that’s been banging around in my head for a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/01/2005
Register now for Microsoft Management Summit 2005!
Ok, I know that I said I’d cut down on the SMS and MOM blogging, but really, these quick posts just...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 02/01/2005
What to try when Office update can't find SKU111.CAB
Yesterday I finally diagnosed a problem that a friend’s laptop has had for a while: whenever she...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/30/2005
Choosing product names that can be verbed and acronymed
If ever I get to work on a product that has its own brand, I’m going to fight long and hard for a...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/25/2005
SMS and MOM bloggers from around the world
We’re really ramping up some worldwide blog coverage of Microsoft systems management products – as...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/21/2005
More on Microsoft project codenames - and how we learn about other jobs at Microsoft
After I wrote “How to create a new Microsoft product - first, choose a name...”, it was rather...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/21/2005
How to create a new Microsoft product - first, choose a name...
As I promised a month ago, I’m going to start blogging about the new Microsoft product that I’m...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/17/2005
MMS 2005 blog and announcements
If you’re not reading the myITforum newsletter, you probably missed the announcement of the official...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/16/2005
A reader's hint about offline files
Brian Davidson kindly sent in the following note on how he fixed his problem with offline files...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/16/2005
Reporting false positives from Microsoft Windows Antispyware
One thing I forgot to mention in my previous post is what to do when the Microsoft anti-spyware tool...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/07/2005
Microsoft anti-virus software to complement today's beta of an anti-spyware tool
[Update for people finding this post through web searches: the anti-virus tool has been released as...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/07/2005
For all you .NET language developers - Don Syme has started an F# blog
Back when I worked at Microsoft Research in England, Don Syme already had his hands deep in the guts...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 01/05/2005
How to make Adobe Reader 7.0 load faster
Like most other techies, whenever I install Adobe’s Acrobat Reader I also uninstall most of the...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/22/2004
Welcome James Morey to the SMS & MOM blogging scene!
Ok, first I said that you really only needed to subscribe to Eileen Brown and Rod Trent for all of...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/21/2004
Do you prefer single-click or double-click behavior for system tray icons?
Many Windows client applications can iconify themselves to the system tray instead of taking up an...
Author: Jonathan Hardwick Date: 12/19/2004