More like fog of character

Still not loving Outlook (new)

Same!

My son learned to read by playing Zork. It’s great to see Zork live on.

6 million patient interaction summaries were generated by AI by Epic medical software last year. In the demo simulation, a mobile device (phone?) recorded the patient conversation and transmitted it to the Epic app for summarization and suggested tasks.

I'm not sure my customers want to be "frontier firms", which have to "holistically reimagine their whole businesses". Even Copilot agrees!

Continuing Windows evolution as a secure open platform for AI and Agents blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

If you want your WinUI app to launch to the tray, and optionally add a context menu to the tray, it is now SUPER simple with WinUIEx!

It's faster and more accessible. What's not to like?

post quantum cryptography support! (that's what I'm most excited about)

Who uses .NET anyway? Over 7 million of us!

Announcing .NET 10 devblogs.microsoft.com/dotnet/annou... #dotnet

Visual Studio 2026 is an impressive upgrade: faster, more capable, but still backward compatible. Check it out!

Coming up at the top of the hour. See you there!

Downloading .NET 10.

INotifyPodcastChanged Episode 12: Enterprise Apps with Ginny Caughey and hosts Joseph Finney & Tamás Deme buff.ly/DBE92af #podcast #devcommunity #windowsdev #dotnet #mvpbuzz

Happy Halloween @marypcbuk.bsky.social and @sbisson.com ! Those were fun times.

The .NETConf agenda is now live with many of your favorite presenters: www.dotnetconf.net/agenda

Do you want to talk to your PC? Do you want everybody in your office to do that?

Visual Studio 2026 Insiders Version 11111.16 Release Notes | Microsoft Learn buff.ly/4RSwVQf #visualstudio #vs2026 #dotnet #githubcopilot #productivity #developers

Fortunately, all the apps I support have been off .NET Framework for years now, but if you're not so lucky check out this video on modernizing .NET apps using GitHub Copilot: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-YKg...

Results from a little WinUIEx experiment this weekend. Simple API to create regions and set them: window.SetRegion( Region.CreateRectangle(window.GetBounds()) - Region(rectangle.GetBounds()); Can also be used to clip the outside of the window to a custom shape. #WinUI

Happy 11th Birthday to Windows Insiders! I can't even remember that last time a fresh Canary build gave me real issues.

Does anybody else have HAL9000 flashbacks looking at the new camera icon in iOS 26?

Finally, with Visual Studio Insiders and SSMS 22 Preview 1 I was able to set up a complete development environment for my work on the Arm PC! Best of all, both preview products include substantial improvements in usability and performance. You don't even need an Arm PC to enjoy the upgrades. 😉

Here's all the new APIs in the WindowsDesktop pack for .NET 10 compared to .NET 9. Lots of little Windows Forms things. The opposite can be said for WPF (with a disappointing total of 0 new APIs): omds.xaml.dev/desktop_net9...

Check out the new Visual Studio 2026 preview. It's fast and pretty! devblogs.microsoft.com/visualstudio...

Shared: Windows File Explorer is fine, actually, and these 6 PowerToys add-ons make it even better ift.tt/HSmVDpb #WinObsWiKi

📢Uno Platform 6.2 is out! ▪️Skia WASM: DPI fix + browser zoom ▪️SKCanvasElement: unified API across platforms ▪️WebView2 aligned with WinUI ▪️ListView + RequestedTheme reliability ▪️RatingControl updated to latest WinUI ▪️Hot Design: template editing, TemplateSelector, Color previews Full release blog🔗👇

Maybe all the recent noise about some AI bubble is related to something I've noticed: GitHub Copilot has gotten so much better lately that I find myself annoyed that it isn't even better!

What's new with PowerToys? | One Dev Question with Kayla Cinnamon. buff.ly/ZerchgP #powertoys #windows #commandpalette #poweruser #windows10 #windows11

Both are great books

I'm finally watching some Microsoft Build sessions I'd missed and found this gem: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio... They had me at "vibe coding is for throw-away things". 😊

Fixed it.

If you know what you're doing, you can probably do it faster than an AI can "help" you to do it. At least for now.

The time saved on things like active coding was overwhelmed by the time needed to prompt, wait on, and review AI outputs, according to the study.

It's always a thrill to be appreciated! Thank you to all my followers who help me help you and Microsoft.

Now all I need is hotdogs and watermelon

Thanks Bing chat! That’s just what I wanted to know.

Upgrading Your .NET Applications: Exploring .NET Upgrade Assistants at Microsoft Build. buff.ly/wwbSsPV #dotnet #modernization #msbuild #dotnetcore #visualstudio #vscode

I've been waiting to put this one out! How to run SSMS 21 on Windows 11 Arm64 sinclairinat0r.com/2025/05/29/h... #MVPBuzz

🎉 We’re back! Recorded live at #MSBuild, we sat down with @maddymontaquila.net to talk .NET Aspire, dev tools, AI, PM life, and what’s next for developers. We’ve missed this. Listen now at buff.ly/IMOPFTt or wherever you get your podcasts. #MVPBuzz

Shared: Windows Update Isn’t Just for System Updates Anymore ift.tt/R8rzwbS #WinObsWiKi

Windows MCP: like COM got a glow-up for the cloud/AI era—registries, proxies, interfaces… and this time, security isn’t optional. Just flip 8 bits: COM → MCP. Maybe that's MSFT's new formula—"Eight bits better than COM!" #MSBuild #Windows #Microsoft #COM #MCP www.linkedin.com/pulse/mcp-wi...

WPF or WinUI? Why not both!

What are agents? LLMs with extra goodness.

.NET is all-in on AI. Also the rest of Microsoft as far as I can tell.

Following along with Dian and Tucker's presentation on-demand: build.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

AI and Vector Data Extensions are now Generally Available (GA)

Basic to understanding GitHub Copilot is knowing what LLMs can and importantly can’t do.