Practical writing on Microsoft 365, AI agents, cloud infrastructure, and the tools that make work faster.
A leaked video from 2024 shows Microsoft prototyping Aion, a lightweight OS built on a stripped-down Windows codebase called Win3. The AI features got the headlines. The end of Win32 is the real story.
Microsoft open sourced Comic Chat, the 1996 IRC client that turned chat into comic strips and gave Comic Sans its first job. 897 GitHub stars, MIT licensed, source from v1.0 through v2.5.
Microsoft Research released Flint, a visualisation language for AI agents with 46 chart types, 3 rendering backends, and a native MCP server. Here is why it matters.
Microsoft Copilot in Excel gets custom skills, six new financial data connectors, Plan with Copilot for preview-before-execute, and Copilot attribution in Show Changes. Here is how it all works, with examples.
