Sages of the Old Times. David Campbell: SQL Server, Michael Fortin: Windows, Rico Mariani: DevDiv, Terry Crowley: Office, Eric Brechner: I. M. Wright 😊
[RUMOR, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT] Build 2026 = June 2-3, Fort Mason [RUMOR, TAKE WITH A GRAIN OF SALT]
Project Firenze, or... Copilot Canvas 🥸 Dev: firenze-fd-dev-f3d8duacg9ggbrcz.b01.azurefd.net Prod: fz-app-prod-drh4g5e0gpfxd0h3.b01.azurefd.net
TIL: researchers @msftresearch.bsky.social has to deal with ROIs these days 🤡 www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_74...
the Microsoft vibes in 1986: When you start with us, you can stay with us. 😌
Galen Hunt introducing Drawbridge, this may be the earliest talk about Drawbridge, from 2010
Galen was actually talking about a thing in Microsoft Research called "Impossible Things Initiative" or "ITI", led by Rico Malvar and Rick Rashid, Rick also talked about it recently www.youtube.com/watch?v=1_74...
"Using Printer Drivers", a very early presentation from @jeffreyrichter.bsky.social 😃
wow, thanks FloppyArchaeology for scanning and archiving this interesting historical document, slides and documents from "Windows International Developers Conference, November 1991" archive.org/details/wind...
Bandish Framework, an AI tool from MSR FoSSE team where Galen Hunt works, it can do code transformations/migrations/translations, or "Large scale code rewrite" like converting C or C# to Rust or upgrading .NET Framework code to .NET Core🤓 yellow-water-03f51970f.1.azurestaticapps.net/projects
Excel 3.0 introduced this new thing called "Toolbar". according to Microsoft 🤓
Galen Hunt: "Design Note 1 was intended to be a straw man. One of the things I do as a researcher is I put out a stake that is very aggressive and causes people to question it and question their understanding and what the space looks like and it provokes discussions." 😌
Galen Hunt: Mr. Sinofsky once sent an email to my VP suggesting that I should be fired ...... 😂
Introducing Galen Hunt, by Galen Hunt, in 2014, kicking off Project Apex, the origin of Microsoft 1ES (One Engineering System)
The Longhorn Holiday Songs 2003, No. 1: The Avalon Song, Don Box + Chris Anderson
Windows XP localization team made this music video to celebrate the achievements in 2004 www.youtube.com/watch?v=JZ1r...
