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Hi, I'm the guy who wrote the original VCBlog post. I would assert that we've been consistent in our messaging: there is not an automatic fix available for Spectre. The /Qspectre s…

"Managed memory is free. Not as in free beer, as in free puppy." Dev manager of Exchange used that line in a talk. Never were more insightful words spoken. Devs will move from C++ …

Having worked for 7 years on the .NET runtime team, I can attest that the BOTR is the official reference. It was created as documentation for the engineering team, by the engineeri…

Coercion is a concern in communities where there's a power imbalance in the home. Consider, for example, an overbearing husband coercing his wife to vote in a particular manner, or…

Thanks, I didn't look far enough to see that the bedcover is removable. Now this truck is an option for me.

My definition of truck: if you can't dump a ton of shit in the bed with a backhoe, it's not a truck. It's a minivan. For me, having a permanent bed cover means it's not useful as a…

Windows 10 has two update channels. Under "Windows Update" > "Advanced Options" there are two separate settings to delay "feature updates" and "quality updates". I don't know wheth…

Great feedback, thank you! Linux targeting isn't my area, but I know the guy who owns it would love to chat with you. If you want to help us make this better, would you mind sendin…

Sure, I can accept that a platform can be doing more than a website and also that you have less control over a platform. Good points, both. I won't comment on Android. I already go…

Wow, sorry. No, no, I'm not triggered at all. I was only trying to illustrate the fact that there are times when we have no choice but to use an OS that uses telemetry. I'll happil…

I didn't mean to offend. I'm just saying that if you think paying for an OS means you won't have data collection, then you're unlikely to find a smartphone that suits you. My point…

Thanks for the downvotes! But seriously, do you honestly think that Microsoft is spying on your more than Google, Facebook, or Amazon? And do you think your Mac OS doesn't have the…

So what phone do you carry? A Nokia flip-phone?

I know someone who works at Microsoft (and has for 15 years.) These cartoons are brilliant--especially the org charts for different companies--but things actually are changing at M…

I've used Linux npm on Ubuntu/WSL without any issues.

You can already target Linux directly from Visual Studio using either WSL or a Linux machine as the target. It uses the compiler on the Linux machine. Details here: https://blogs.m…

I can either be charitable or accusatory :) It's not so obscure as to how one might run Xcode tools on another Unix-like OS. It's just illegal. Apple tightly controls their entire …

I don't think you'll find a way to seamlessly build native iOS apps from Windows. Visual Studio has a great development environment for iOS apps but the compilation still has to ha…

There's not much preventing any engineer at Microsoft from talking to developers. No lawyers need to be involved :-)

Bruce, thanks for the kick! Six years is a long time to wait for a bug resolution. It turns out that our compiler has a minimum size limit in a memset optimization. I’m sure the si…

VS/MSVC has improved a lot. There are details here: https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/vcblog/2016/06/07/compiler-... but the long and short of it is that we are working on achieving…

I'd suggest looking at the papers that were submitted for discussion at the upcoming Lenexa Standardization meeting for references. They're located here: https://isocpp.org/blog/ca…

Pay attention, Scott :) Sorry. Triton is the Windows Phone 8 "Compiler in the Cloud". It basically split NGen into two pieces, allowing the optimization to happen in the Store whil…