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On Windows, UWP was supposed to solve this (by blocking apps from taking focus directly, but having the OS/shell create an app window immediately on launch and give focus to it) bu…

Yes, trying to communicate (or watching others try to communicate) about these topics is incredibly frustrating because it's pretty much impossible to make any progress without int…

Yeah I've written some docs using the following process: 1. Throw some notes, PR links, etc. into copilot and ask for a first draft 2. Go back and forth for a while asking for revi…

But I feel like over the last ~10 years there's been a trend back towards learning more about them (e.g., with Rust and new C# features, or with C++ Win32 programming becoming a co…

I still take a lot of handwritten notes? Sometimes while using AI even

Yeah, I've always tried to train myself to do calculations in my head as much as reasonably possible when learning about mathematical objects, etc. Like when I was learning linear …

Metal Gear Solid 2 sort of

I guess the argument is that, while it's the same whether the user asks for "give me page 3" or "give me scrollbar Y coordinate 2160", the user is more likely to do the first or at…

That is about consumer copilot not M365 copilot

Roslyn API basically lets you plug in to the C# compiler or use parts of it so that you can get the same view of the abstract syntax tree, typechecking, flow analysis, etc. that th…

A dumber but related habit I've gotten into is that if I want to use AI to do some sort of refactoring on a C# codebase, instead of asking it to edit the code directly I ask it to …

Seeing this makes me think of the controls from the original arcade version of Street Fighter 1.

Windows has been gradually "undocking" more and more stuff from the main OS install into separately updatable/restartable/etc components for a while.

The post doesn't really define the problem this is supposed to solve for "builders". FWIW, Microsoft's official attempt at solving this problem? seems to be "Windows developer conf…

Windows doesn't have any modern version of .NET installed by default though, only old .NET Framework versions

They already have this problem, Windows includes .NET Framework 4.x but not any modern version of .NET

No he was correctly factoring in afterlife time dilation

WinUI2/UWP was heavily adopted internally though?* Most Windows shell UI and built-in apps use it at this point. * (at least within the Windows organization; maybe not so much in o…

it's a reasonable-sounding inference (if your only context is that there's a "new" Media Player and it's taking more memory) that doesn't apply in this particular case. A joke can …

I think Groove Music/Media Player is C# though

1. It does not use HTML/JS. It is a fully "native" app (at least if C# counts as native) written with C# and UWP/WinUI2 XAML. Actually, Xbox Music in Windows 8.x had a web tech bas…

The Media Player the article about is a fully "native" app though (at least if you count C# as native). The Windows8.x version (Xbox Music) was web tech based; it in turn was a res…

The rebrand of Groove Music to Media Player was a Windows 11 thing, so it sort of did ship a "new" media player. It also still ships the old one though (as "Windows Media Player Le…

This app is a reskinned Groove Music, it was mostly written back in the early Windows 10 days (2014-2017) and long predates Copilot/etc. Even the Windows 11 rebrand as Media Player…