how it started: how it’s going:

I f'king love modern Windows I hit the Windows key on keyboard, type bash. Windows Terminal launches and in the background WSL2 launches my Ubuntu environment. 5 seconds after hitting enter I have this interface and am Linuxing... /cc Rich Turner Kayla Cinnamon ☕

TechRally Nah that ain’t right

If you’re a politician or media figure who sets up the LGBTQ community to be hated and feared - not because any of us ever harmed you but because you find it useful - then don’t you dare act surprised when this kind of violence follows. Don’t you dare act surprised.

This is MASSIVE. The Windows Subsystem for Linux in the Microsoft Store is now generally available on Windows 10 and 11! Windows 10 users can now run Linux GUI apps natively! devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/th…

A moment of appreciation for these product shots during #SnapdragonSummit 🙌

We're empowering developers to move into the future! Future Windows devices running on an Arm processor will no longer support AArch32 (Arm32). We recommend updating your targeted platforms to AArch64 (Arm64). Follow the guidance here ⬇️ msft.it/6012eqoOp

Purr programming

Paint​.NET 5.0 is now available!!! Check it out here: forums.getpaint.net/topic/121643-p… There's so much new stuff to talk about...

Qualcomm Neural Processing SDK for Windows is now generally available. Snapdragon NPUs are finally usable on Windows without an NDA or reverse engineering, yay.

You may not like it but this is what peak smartphone design looks like.

I love the new Microsoft Store transitions — super smooth and lovely details, like the spotlight effect following the cursor. Excellent work Rudy Huyn and team 🥰

Wooooooooooooooooooot! :D

Seriously, I fully recommend learning PowerShell if you're a Sys Admin/Engineer or do anything related to Microsoft technologies, because it's saving my arse right now in preparation for the suffering I'm about to endure tomorrow morning lol.

Rich Turner Thanks for everything you’ve done to push the Windows on Arm story forwards, Rich! Congratulations on your retirement from Microsoft, wishing you all the best.

It’s amazing to me that THE feature in ios17 that everyone is talking about basically turns my pocket supercomputer into a clock radio telephone. Y’ALL HAVE NO IDEA how long I saved to get me one of these back in the day. MULTI FUNCTION Y’ALL

It looks like C# is finally getting discriminated unions. And with it, you can expect to see language-level support for Result and Option types. I'm excited to see this come to C#, as I've advocated for the Result pattern for quite some time.