I use the 3-finger swipe left/right touchpad gesture (even on my desktop PC) for switching between apps. Switching apps that way isn't easy if that desktop has multiple browser tabs open, crowding the task view. TIL there is a Windows setting to exclude individual tabs from the task and snap views.

Happy 100th birthday, quantum mechanics!

The local church demonstrates extreme selective quoting.

🎵 Imagine there is no hell or heaven ... no religion too... Worship at 10.

Nice! Windows now enforces much higher USB-C feature and performance standards than what USB-IF and USB specs allow. Every USB-C port on every new (24H2) Windows PC supports displays, chargers and data.

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Bill Gates tears into Elon Musk for being “involved in the deaths of the world’s poorest children.” He’s also put a 20-year deadline on giving away virtually all of his wealth www.theverge.com/news/663322/...

Amazon (really #Magazon at this point) is openly bribing the new royal family anyway they can. Zero principles, zero backbone.

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it looks like Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella is notably absent from Trump’s inauguration 🤔

A note of gratitude as we welcome 2025.

I've kept this fortune cookie slip in my home office for the past 20 years. It's from our first team lunch after joining Microsoft in late 2004.

Finding peace, meaning and purpose in your work is a blessing.

May 2025 bring you your own happy new adventures.

I have a basic understanding of how LLMs work, so I realize calling this "intelligence" would be akin to seeing ghosts in a teacup. But from a strictly practical get-stuff-done point of view, GitHub #Copilot surprises me a few times a day by practically reading my mind.

Note I only typed "#define".

Happy #QuantumDay to all who celebrate!

Max Planck submitted work on blackbody radiation to the German Physical Society #OTD in 1900.

His novel “quantum hypothesis” suggested that matter emits and absorbs light with frequency f only in discrete chunks of energy E=hf. 🧪 ⚛️ (1/n)

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As engineers we strive to leave a big, lasting impact. But impact is hard to predict. Our natural tendency is towards big shiny projects aimed at "making the world a better place™". Ironically, invisible incremental improvements often yield higher ROI, and impact is wherever you can find it. 🧵👇

Our team open-sourced OpenVMM & OpenHCL recently. OpenVMM is a type2 virtual machine monitor. OpenHCL is when OpenVMM runs as a paravisor, to provide virtualization services to the guest from within.

They already power millions of #Azure VMs. Good resource to learn VMMs. github.com/microsoft/Op...

Microsoft #Ignite sessions are now available to watch on-demand. Everything from Satya's keynote to confidential computing, from AI to #Windows and #Linux platform innovations on #Azure and the edge.

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#MassEffect Legendary Edition with 3 full games, 40+ DLCs, all remastered in 4K for $5.99 has to be the best deal in the history of deals. Happy 17th #N7!
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The idea that accessibility doesn't help you unless you're disabled is very misguided.

I like how our training points out that disability should be thought of as a mismatch between a person's capabilities and their environment, which can apply to anyone.

It's the awesome 90s! 8 and 16 bit "home computers" like #C64 and #Amiga are all the rage. Released in 1993, #Bronx "Faith of Black" was my first full-length graphics demo for the Amiga 500, coded completely in Motorola MC68000 assembly during a high school summer recess.

Hello Bluesky!