Good news. In VS 2026 Preview /Oy- is now the default, even in the "Release" configuration. This is the case at least for new projects. Glad to see this finally fixed.

In case you had missed it - I had. VirtualBox now supports Windows on Arm. blogs.oracle.com/virtualizati... Not a bad alternative to the departed Windows Services for Android.

November 1994.

Now this is something unexpected: Tahoe's new "Apps" pannel behaves worse than Windows start menu. It is sluggish, at times downright unrespinsive, some UI elements just don't work... it is me or "26" is just not Apple's number?!

macOS Tahoe (download) is 20GB. Geez!

Some dev tools from colledge days...

My next macbook will have SVE. Will I still have my M1 by 2030?

Please, debug card manufacturers: Stop using micro-USB for UART ports. Just stop it. Really! No more. Please! There is this thing called USB-C now - been here for a while. Pretty solid. Give micro-USB honorable fairwell. Please!

alloc r1=ar.pfs,i,l,o,r the most beautiful instruction ever designed.

When there are all adults in an adult setting it is weird to ask where the "potty" is. You ask for the "bathroom", or some other adult word for it. Same goes for an engineer to say "BSOD". The word is "Bugcheck".

If the gov stays shutdown till April, does that mean I don' have to pay federal taxes?

Very exciting news for the #WindowsOnArm ecosystem

🐞 Building a debugger = learning how computers really work. On today’s #GOTOpodcast, @timdbg.com & @tartanllama.xyz unpack: 🔍 The hidden complexity of stack unwinding & stepping 🖥️ Windows vs Linux debugging ⏳ Time travel debugging & the future 🎧 gotopia.tech/podcast

Branding is not everything... but it is something...

Here is my updated TF-A + EDK2 for QEMU. It enables running Windows and Hypervisor under TCG. The package includes my startup script plus a sample OS image. Use with QEMU 10.1.0. With this you can do everything I demoed on the Linaro Connect keynote. 1drv.ms/u/c/a075d439...

Preview of Xbox App finally fully functional on Arm64, allowing you to download and install purchased or subscribed games. Yes, most will be running under emulation and there will be glitches. But this is how we erode chick-and-egg adoption resistance to Arm64 blogs.windows.com/windows-insi...

I am getting a vibe from this USPS notification and it is not a good one...

Who's up for some beta testing of native Adobe Premiere Pro and After Effects on their Arm64 Windows machines!? community.adobe.com/t5/premiere-... community.adobe.com/t5/after-eff...

Before Blender and Maya, Newtek's LightWave was the king 3D gfx software. Initially for the Amiga and then ported all the way to Windows NT for Alpha.

I think I finally found a worthy replacement for my AMD Seattle: radxa.com/products/ori...

Here comes another UI religious war... the new Apple Metal, Windows 11 acrylic, Windows Vista Aero.... Who cares?! Don't you see UI peeked at Open Look nothing will ever get close? What's the point in fighting? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenWin...

Wow… The new iOS language does look a whole lot like Windows acrylic…

youtu.be/dbMj54_eD24?... 🧠 When was the last time you saw hypervisor and kernel debugging at a conference keynote?

“Oh no, oh no Here we go now Oh no, oh now Here we go now Got a crazy feeling I don't understand Got to get away from here Feeling like I should have kept my feet on the ground Waiting for the sun to appear” Flight Simulation (1983) #ZXSpectrum #RetroGaming

Me, testing the freshest LLM models, running on X Elite, with a really tough question.

I am proud to have been invited by Linaro to be a keynote speaker at the #LinaroConnect2025 conference. Come see the amazing work Linaro has been doing with the communities to accelerate the #WindowsOnArm ecosystem.

Elon is Rivian's most valuable marketing asset.

Intel's 386 processor (1985) moved the x86 architecture to 32 bits, but it needed to be backward compatible with earlier 16 and 8-bit processors. As a result, it needed complicated circuitry for its internal registers: six different circuits for 30 registers. Let's look at the silicon circuits. 1/N

@pytorch.org now has native Windows ARM builds! blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

Last week I pushed a bunch of documentation updates that have been on my to-do list for a while. Most of the EH Rtl functions were documented in a hurry during the consent decree dark period. Hopefully you can the see the difference with how I documented the new learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...

Happy Patch-Tuesday! Don't forget to update your devices :-)

“Mott the Hoople and the Game of Life Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Andy Kaufman in the wrestling match Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Monopoly, Twenty-One, checkers, and chess Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah Mister Fred Blassie in a breakfast mess Yeah-yeah-yeah-yeah” Moon Alert (1984) #ZXSpectrum #ManontheMoon #RetroGaming

When I re-read the Itanium manual for the "br" instruction, I really get the impression FEAT_HBC was a lost opportunity...

DOGE's plan to de-regulate is completely selfless... www.wsj.com/business/aut...

Added a way to diff two assemblies at the byte level. This is what I really needed it for - to debug deterministic builds. I needed to see why is the assembly different even though nothing has changed. In this case it was SourceLink stamping the Git SHA into the embedded pdb.

IFS Plugfest - Debugging IA-64 with Ntsd & Ia64kd - Jeff Havens - 2000/11 www.youtube.com/watch?v=ciei...

Finally had time over the holidays to realize a long-standing dream of mine: a hex editor that knows about the PE file and .NET metadata format. You can click any byte and it will show you which data structure it is in the tree. Every byte is covered. The parser is at github.com/KirillOsenko...

Microsoft BASIC for the Motorola 6809-based Dragon 32 was recently discovered... in an attic, printed out on 340 pages of fan-fold paper, now carefully scanned and OCR'd for posterity.

Apple now allows other VMMs other than its own access to the TSO bit.

A vintage Intel video on the 386 processor, feat. Pat Gelsinger and Gene Hill, just dropped on YouTube. youtu.be/LQcLhBZY12g Thanks to @computerhistory.bsky.social for digitizing this.

Looks accurate to me

Science is a verb, not a noun!

Intel launched the Pentium processor in 1993. Unfortunately, dividing sometimes gave a slightly wrong answer, the famous FDIV bug. Replacing the faulty chips cost Intel $475 million. I reverse-engineered the circuitry and can explain the bug. 1/9

Can't beat using VHDX Native Boot just because I don't feel like nuking my existing OS on Canary, for the sake of testing Recall 😅.

Simple 3 steps to boot Arm64 WinVOS in QEMU (emulation mode). linaro.atlassian.net/wiki/spaces/... Boots in under a minute.

So you like to tinker with low level debugging, small images and full system emulators? Have you tried playing with WinVOS? learn.microsoft.com/en-us/window...