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I think Microsoft does deserve some credit for the idea behind WMI, but when I worked with it I always got the sense that the API was sitting on top of a massiv

by markbnj 12y ago

I think Microsoft does deserve some credit for the idea behind WMI, but when I worked with it I always got the sense that the API was sitting on top of a massive hairball that I didn't want to look at for too long. It was slow, but it worked. I'd be thrilled if osquery just achieved the same level of query completeness, and made it easier to find properties and query them. I found WMI confusing in that regard.

csours 12y ago
A (not so) simple case: How many network interfaces do I have? WMIC gives one answer, Netsh gives another, ncpa.cpl - Network Control Panel gives another, hardware manager may give another. I'm impressed anything works.
- bmajz 12y ago
  Oh, the wonders of legacy interfaces