Tag: microsoft
i guess it’s better than Nothing?
Microsoft will likely soon follow Sony and stop the production of physical discs for Xbox games. But instead of leaving physical discs behind entirely, sources familiar with Microsoft’s plans tell me the company has quietly been working on a disc-to-digital feature that will allow Xbox owners to digitize their existing physical game collections. Xbox employees...
Microsoft Adds Key AI Citation Analytics to Bing Webmaster Tools
Redmond, WA, June 23, 2026 — Traditional search engine optimization is currently experiencing a slow, painful death. Let’s not sugarcoat it. The era of the “blue link” traffic firehose is winding down as generative AI engines like Microsoft Copilot scrape web content, synthesize it, and deliver answers directly to users without them ever needing to […]
Office-Welt: Wie geht es weiter?
Ich habe ganz schön viele Schlagwörter unter diesem Artikel hingeworfen. Es geht mal wieder um die Office-Welt, weil da was passiert ist. Mit Euro Office ist nämlich ein neuer Player am Start. Und nein, soweit ich das beurteilen kann, hat das nichts mit Office.eu zu tun. Aber wenn wir uns alle mal ehrlich machen, ist...
Digitales Dilemma: Warum Google-Accounts als kritische Infrastruktur behandelt werden sollten
Der Beitrag argumentiert, dass große Identitätsplattformen wie Google und Microsoft wegen ihrer gesellschaftlichen Relevanz stärker reguliert und mit neutralen Einspruchsverfahren versehen werden müssen.
Wrapping Up My Latest Microsoft Chapter
Closing out a third stint at Microsoft - reflections on three and a quarter years working on developer experience before moving to a new role in 2026.
Der KI-Kreislauf - Über Branchenprimi und Kreisläufe. Und Branchenprimi. Aber auch Kreisläufe!
Der KI-Kreislauf: Wie Unternehmen wie OpenAI, Microsoft und NVIDIA miteinander verflochten sind
Meine 2,718281828459045235 Cents: Die geplante Obsoleszenz ist zurück
Dieser Artikel befasst sich kritisch mit der **geplanten Obsoleszenz**, die durch **Software-Zwänge** wie das Ende des Supports für **Windows 10** und restriktive **Hardware-Anforderungen** für **Windows 11** erneut aktuell wird. Der Autor beleuchtet die Problematik der fehlenden **Rückwärtskompatib
Install OneDrive Client for Linux on Debian or Ubuntu
edafe.de/onedrive The OneDrive Client for Linux connects your Debian or Ubuntu system to Microsoft's OneDrive Personal, OneDrive for Business, OneDrive for Office365, Sharepoint and other such deployments. Step 1 Install the OneDrive Client from the Debian or Ubuntu repository. $ sudo -- bash -c 'apt update && apt install --yes onedrive' Step 2 Begin to...
My preferred GitHub alternative
GitHub's now former CEO went in for some bold absolutes on software development as a career last week: Either you have to embrace the Al, or you get out of your career. And, this week, resigned. : GitHub and its leadership team will continue its mission as part of Microsoft’s CoreAI organization, with more details shared soon. Terrifying stuff!
Visual Studio Code And The MCP Installation Prompt
VS Code Insiders adds a consent prompt before installing a third-party MCP server, blocking silent one-click writes to the editor's MCP configuration.
Agents Are Your Mech Suit
Why AI agents act as a force multiplier for engineers, why the job-replacement framing misses the point, and how to think about agent-based workloads.
Not Universal Enough
Microsoft attempts to make the USB-C port live up to its name by trying to force manufacturers to follow a standard. But you know what they say about standards.
Mission Drift
If a company or service you rely on changes owners, you can’t be guaranteed that its mission will match what you’ve come to expect—even if, at least initially, it seems like everything’s on track. Hence why I returned a new messenger bag.
The Missing Intro To Flexible Federated Identity Credentials
Set up Entra ID flexible FIC to authenticate GitHub Actions workflows against Azure resources like Key Vault without storing client secrets.
Hello, Developer Division
Notes on moving from the Microsoft Identity team to the Developer Division after two and a half years working on MSAL and identity SDKs.
Extracting Icons From A Windows DLL Or EXE With C#
Extract icon resources from Windows DLL and EXE binaries to a local folder using C# and the Win32 API via P/Invoke.
How to Download Windows Server 2025 ARM edition (work around)
In my previous post, I mentioned that Windows Server 2025 had gained general availability, but I had no information about the ARM64 version. It appears that 4sysops has found a workaround. You can download an ARM version of Windows 2025 from uupdump.net. Since I have a few M1/M2 Macs lying around, I’ll try downloading it...
Windows Server 2025 GA’ed, along with System Center 2025
Microsoft has just released Windows Server 2025 and System Center 2025 in General Availability. You can find more information on the Microsoft Release status site. Current status as of November 1, 2024 Windows Server 2025 is now generally available. It delivers security advancements and new hybrid cloud capabilities in a high performing, AI-capable platform. Windows...
The Rich Data Wonk
There‘s something weirdly comforting about Steve Ballmer’s unusual second act as a nonpartisan truth-teller, through his USAFacts nonprofit.
Comedic Consultant
Trevor Noah has been on the Microsoft payroll for years, and nobody apparently noticed until now. Is that a problem? (Hint: Yes.)
The AI Laptops’ Secret Feature
Ignore the AI that Microsoft is selling everyone. The reason why the new ARM laptops are exciting is because Qualcomm did the work with Linux. Also: I built a site.
Defeating Mouse Lint
The rise of the optical mouse, a device so good at its job that it effectively killed off the rubber ball, and the sometimes questionable people who invented it.
Linux in 2024 – charting its own path to innovation
"Why do people take the path less traveled and choose an operating system based on Linux over the proprietary based ones from from Microsoft Windows and also the Apple Mac OS? So welcome to the intriguing world of Linux, an operating system that's been quietly revolutionising the tech landscape."
sudo embrace
Microsoft’s decision to introduce sudo for Windows is strangely symbolic of how influential UNIX has been even on non-UNIX ecosystems.
Using Generative AI to produce Spotify Clips
In this blog post, I discuss how you might use Generative AI models like VideoPoet to generate short video clips like Spotify Clips. Using DALL-E as a proxy, I show the general workflow in practice for the song A Hundred Dead and Loving Souls by Chicano Batman
Spooky Database Relations
A discussion of the least-on-brand thing to ever happen on Halloween: The Halloween problem, a database querying issue with a long legacy.
We're Hiring A Senior Technical Program Manager
Open Senior TPM role on the Microsoft Identity Authentication SDK team, helping drive MSAL adoption and modern auth migration across Microsoft.
Tales Of Type
A discussion of the ways that large tech companies helped to define the evolution of computer typography. One battle made the CEO of Adobe really mad.
Solving The Funky 0x8007007B Windows Activation Error
Diagnosing Windows 11 Enterprise activation error 0x8007007B by chasing down the missing KMS DNS record that prevented domain-joined activation.
Experimenting With Managed Identity In MSAL.NET
Using MSAL.NET managed identity APIs to authenticate to Azure Key Vault from an Azure Batch job without storing credentials in environment variables.
Bing Chat aka Sydney
Been getting progressively spooked by AI and the leaps & bounds with which it's been progressing over the past couple of months.
AI, Minus the Hype
Perhaps you’ve heard a thing or ten about generative AI stuff like ChatGPT. Should you care? Let’s have a (relatively) normal person explain it to you.