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But ahh, the memories this brings ... my very first meeting as a Microsoft employee in 2004 was about whether to upgrade to XSLT 2.0 in the native (used by the browser) and .NET XML Libraries. IIRC we decided "YES" but it never got done for a million boring practical reasons.

YouTube video by WalkingCat Office XP Airlift - Application Error Reporting - Eric LeVine - 2001/02

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Regex Decision Procedures in Extended RE# www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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YouTube video by WalkingCat The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure - Chris Lattner - 2004/07

The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure - Chris Lattner - 2004/07 www.youtube.com/watch?v=f9I2...

Aspire Roadmap (2025 → 2026) · dotnet aspire · Discussion #10644 Hi everyone 💫 We’ve had so much fun building, learning, and Aspirifying with you over the last year. As many of you have noticed, there are lots of exciting things in the works, and we figured it w...

@davidfowl.com and i had to squeak this out before he takes off for vacation (and while @damianedwards.com is still away so he can’t tell us how crazy we are 🤪😇 )

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Enter, Exit, Page Fault, Leak: Testing Isolation Boundaries for Microarchitectural Leaks www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Fifty Years of Transaction Processing Research - Phil Bernstein (Slides) www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

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Pattern-based C#: if it quacks like a duck… - Eva Ditzelmüller & Stefan Pölz - NDC Oslo 2025 www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqnV...

YouTube video by WalkingCat PDC 2003 - Security Symposium: Practice and Threats - Michael Howard - 2003/10

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Thanks Paul!

My old office: 3/2104. Working in Apps Tools, I did SLM 1.5 and C#'88 here.
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You could enter and waltz right on up the stairs, no glass barrier.

We worked day and night. I recall the black Douglas firs against the blue twilight sky. The fun we had.

White coffee cup with "Windows Phone, www.microsoft.ca/makeapps"

Now here's an artifact. Can't even imagine where I got that.

Welcome screen.

Workspace.

Figma if it was a Windows XP app in 2002 (mockup)

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Our first attempt to detect and report all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions - The Old New Thing Identifying and classifying the exit points.

Our first attempt to detect and report all unhandled C++ exceptions as well as all unhandled structured exceptions
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#cpp
#cplusplus

YouTube video by Microsoft Alumni Network Pete Higgins | Microsoft Alumni Voices

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YouTube video by Microsoft Alumni Network Jon DeVaan | Microsoft Alumni Voices

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A promotional image for OSDI 2025 featuring a purple background with the OSDI 25 logo on the left. On the right is a partial view of a research paper titled “PoWER Never Corrupts: Tool-Agnostic Verification of Crash Consistency and Corruption Detection,” authored by researchers from the University of Texas at Austin, Microsoft, and MIT CSAIL.

Congratulations to Hayley LeBlanc,  Jay Lorch,  Chris Hawblitzel,  Cheng Huang and co-authors of “Power Never Corrupts: Tool-Agnostic Verification of Crash Consistency and Corruption Detection” for winning the Distinguished Artifact Award at #OSDI2025!

We've taken another step forward in Microsoft's adoption of confidential computing for our most critical workload by migrating the Windows licensing service into confidential virtual machines:



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Being laid off at Microsoft has been like finding out that someone you admire is rude to wait staff. There's really no walking back that callousness and disrespect.

I know it's hard - I *know* - but those still there should reflect deeply on what you are associating yourself with.

Unity.... (cough)

Steve Ball on the Windows Vista startup sound www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTs2...

Steve Ball on the history of Windows startup sounds www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTs2...

YouTube video by WalkingCat Sound in Microsoft Products - Steve Ball, Benjamin Bethurum - 2007/10

Sound in Microsoft Products - Steve Ball, Benjamin Bethurum - 2007/10 www.youtube.com/watch?v=oTs2...

YouTube video by WalkingCat Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the Vista Melody (Part 2: Q&A) - Robert Scoble - 2007/03

Making Windows Vista Sing: Robert Fripp and the Vista Melody (Part 2: Q&A) - Robert Scoble - 2007/03 www.youtube.com/watch?v=s1FY...

Arithmetic Solving in Z3 @msftresearch.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Apiary: An OS for the Modern FPGA @msftresearch.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Windows Agent Arena: Evaluating Multi-Modal OS Agents at Scale @msftresearch.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...

Cloud Actor-Oriented Database Transactions in Orleans @msftresearch.bsky.social www.microsoft.com/en-us/resear...