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You don't need a tool, you can just right-click and uninstall.

this is how I did "AI coding" (for unfamiliar languages/frameworks/etc.) back in the GPT-3.5/4 days. Except I'd also test each line to verify it actually did what I thought it did.…

MAI is supposed to have its own design language/brand identity that is unrelated to the overall Microsoft brand. It has its own fonts, logo, colors, etc. The weird thing is that co…

Microsoft's head of marketing at the time posted about this on internal Yammer. He said there were two main reasons: first, "Windows 10" just did better in focus groups than Window…

switching between a touchscreen and mouse is no more awkward than switching between a keyboard and mouse, imo

I'm not sure there's any crisply definable bright line separating them. Generally embrace/extend strategies do involve trying to make extensions that some people will consider valu…

WinRT doesn't depend on the CLR at all, it's just an updated COM-based model.

Aren't your two paragraphs really two ways of saying the same thing?

no, but they've introduced a bunch of versions of it under different names (WPF, Silverlight, Phone Silverlight, WinRT XAML, UWP), a few of which broke compatibility, so that's pro…

voice is just an input method. a natural language interface can also support typing or other inputs.

The meaningful difference is whether there are isolation and distribution/update mechanisms so that users can install and maintain apps with less risk and hassle. This doesn't have…

These benchmark articles frustrate me because I rarely feel they tell me anything. What do the benchmarks actually measure? When one tested product benchmarks as better/worse than …

Yes

Correct.

the answer from "silverstorm" is correct. To elaborate a bit, if you add a feature or API to the underlying OS, but there's no corresponding browser feature that makes use of it, t…

even if you're "good at" hierarchical filesystems they have a few inherent problems: 1) there's overhead associated with coming up with a hierarchical file structure, keeping it up…

There used to be a bus route that went from Seattle to Bellevue at 2:15 and 3:30 am, but it got shut down as part of recent budget cuts. :(

what, are you saying Bozo the Clown wasn't a success? :)

certain core systems components are often developed by small teams or individuals even within large organizations. the .net GC was written/maintained by 1 dev for a long time (Patr…

the ambiguity is that it's presented as something the host does in this particular instance, but the validity of the probability calculations depends on it being a protocol the hos…

thoughtlessness and callousness are far more common sources of evil than either incompetence or malice strictly defined. "People who don't care if I live or I die".

there is a separate, smaller "quality" team with a separate reporting hierarchy that is supposed to address this - that's where the reference to data scientists, etc. in the articl…

Aren't we seeing it? I thought Qt does support WP8+: http://doc.qt.io/qt-5/winrt-support.html

Windows Phone is some shared core components from Windows desktop (which RT is basically just an ARM build of) + its own stuff on top. The shared core has been growing with each re…

They had to block native code on WP7.x because they were on the CE kernel, knew they were going to move to the NT kernel in WP8, and native apps wouldn't have ported over.