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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

5 jobs Windows Phone did nobody else does better even today: 1. Calendar/notifications on lockscreen 2. Working voice integration across maps, contacts, etc. 3. Text notifications on PC 4. Live tiles 5. Multiple pins for email folders What do you miss most?

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2 years

All these types of apps are now welcome to the Microsoft Store. We've come a long way from the UWP only days! #MSBuild #DevMC

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@gcaughey

4 years

One of life's mysteries is why this isn't one of the stock backgrounds for @MicrosoftTeams

SwiftOnSecurity

@SwiftOnSecurity

4 years

I just took this photo. Nature is healing we are the virus.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

The youngest #MSBuild attendee this year is 10 years olds old. Her 12 year old sister joins her. Starting girls off right I see! 😍

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@gcaughey

2 years

Thanks ⁦ @MVPAward ⁩! It’s always a thrill.

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@gcaughey

3 years

Thanks ⁦ @MVPAward ⁩! The feeling of being appreciated never ever gets old. ❤️

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 months

Microsoft has announced that WinUI 3 is joining WPF as the two recommended native UI platforms for Windows. Sanity is back at #msbuild

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@WindowsCentral

4 months

Microsoft is finally getting its Windows UI platform act together with WinUI 3 and WPF, updated with Windows 11 theming LINK: #Windows11 #WinUI #WPF

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

10 months

The only mystery remaining is how Satya managed to do all that while watching cricket.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

2 years

This is a screen shot of Visual Studio 2022 running natively on Arm from #MSBuild

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

2 years

Q. Should a new desktop app use WPF, WinUI, or MAUI? A. It's complicated. 😏

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

1 year

Looks like I'm back! Thanks, @MVPAward ! Unless of course the website made a mistake (since I haven't gotten the email yet). 😲 But anyway, thanks to all my followers on Twitter who helped me be useful. If you've got Windows Development questions, I've got contacts! 😎

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@gcaughey

5 years

So we're all 10X developers now, right?

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@gcaughey

5 years

One theme I’m hearing from attendees at #MSBuild this year is that despite no major bombshell announcements, this year is the best in years. It’s because MS is listening, pulling back from mistakes, and fixing things without leaving early adopters behind. Bring it on!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

Pro tip: just because C# adds a new feature, it doesn’t mean you have to use it if it makes your code less clear.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

How's your day going?

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

Microsoft share price since I've been an MVP. You're welcome.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

Loving my cozy #WindowsUglySweater that just arrived. Thanks @windows ! 😍 cc @donasarkar

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

Don't call .NET Framework "dead". Call it stable. For more info about .NET 5 watch here now:

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

Windows CE was awesome. It was a nice little OS that ran well on limited hardware but was also familiar to “big” Windows developers. Of course .NET was there too.

Benj Edwards

@benjedwards

4 years

In 1996, Microsoft released its first commercial pocket version of Windows, Windows CE. It initially powered Handheld PCs but evolved to do much more. I wrote about it for How-To Geek: … Did you ever use Windows CE? What did you think?

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Ginny Caughey

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1 year

The proposed new design tweaks to Visual Studio look really nice!

Visual Studio UI Refresh - Visual Studio Blog

We’re updating Visual Studio's UI to be cohesive with Fluent design principles, making Visual Studio a productive workspace for everyone.

devblogs.microsoft.com

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

9 months

In what alternative universe is the cluttered UI in New Outlook better than the Mail and Calendar? I tried it again and I still hate it.

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@gcaughey

2 years

For people saying that Windows 11 is just a cosmetic update to Windows 10: if you aren't aware of all the changes under the hood, that's a testament to how well they were implemented.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

I'm surprised nobody has commented on the logo on the back of the emulated Surface Neo. 😍

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Windows Subsystem on Linux can use the GPU rather than CPU, in this example training an AI model. #MSBuild #DevMC

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

If you didn't know, .NET is gotten dramatically faster and continues to do so.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

1 year

My Windows Phone with Continuum did that years ago. I no longer use that phone but still use the USB hub that made it work.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

Damn I miss my Windows Phone. 😭 Maybe removing this reminder on my laptop would be a kindness.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 months

Have you tried out the WPF Gallery app yet? It's in the Windows Store.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

If you're a .NET developer, you have a lot of company! From the #MSBuild on-demand session with @coolcsh #DevMC

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@gcaughey

1 year

Do your builds take too long? Microsoft has been listening.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

Interesting! No AV needs to run on Windows 10X devices (sucking up battery) because apps have a different trust model based on code-signed apps.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

Dear Apple, if you don't want reviewers to pan your shiny new tablet for not supporting more PC functiionality, don't say it's like a PC.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

Windows Terminal 1.0 planned for release by the end of this year.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

The feeling of being appreciated never gets old. Thanks @MVPAward and to all the people at Microsoft who support my efforts. ♥

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Have I really been writing .NET code for 20 years? Probably! Happy Birthday .NET!

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@gcaughey

3 months

Who wore yellow better?

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Did everybody notice that Windows 11's new facelift is built using UWP?

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

11 months

I really like the new dashboard so you can quickly see what you've opted into.

Clint Rutkas

@ClintRutkas

11 months

#PowerToys 0.75 is released! New features likes Environment variable editor with profiles, a new dashboard in settings to provide quick visibility, and ton of more tweaks from people like you, the community ❤️ like Peek now can use file previewers!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 months

@JenMsft Many years ago I presented a conference session on multithreading. I began it with "Do you like surprises?"

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

I'm having a hard time choosing, but I think Lumia 1520 was the best phone I ever had. It was large enough to comfortably use as an e-reader, small enough for my handbag, had good battery life, and at the time Cortana was brilliant. If it had been red, it would have been perfect.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

In the mood for pearls today for no particular reason.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

The more iPhone works like Windows Phone 7, the better I like it.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

I'm old enough to remember when removing a Visual Studio preview meant rebuilding a PC. Now I have 3 previews and production all installed side by side.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

What Windows 10X Is—and Why It's the Future of Microsoft Software

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@gcaughey

5 years

Is typing a letter and then a dot and letting Visual Studio IntelliCode do the rest really programming? Hell yeah. 😎

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

@panos_panay Is it too late to provide feedback about the size of the bezel? 😈

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

Well that was easy. I just moved (a copy of) an enormous production WPF app to .NET 5 in about 5 minutes. Useful info here if you're following along:

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

.NET Core is very cool - my legacy apps run noticeably faster with .NET Core 3.1.5 than they ever did with .NET Framework, and I'm looking forward to .NET 5. But if you didn't know, .NET Framework is still very much alive and supported too. #WinWin

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@gcaughey

3 months

Not everyone will agree, but I also like WPF for new desktop development.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

I remember a MVP conference many years ago when a group of us told Microsoft engineers our dream for cross-platform development. I didn't honestly think it would ever happen. I was wrong. #dotnetconf

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Updating Visual Studio to the latest and greatest. Here's what's new in version 17.0

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

@JenMsft Hope this helps you make your point. 😁

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@gcaughey

4 years

NET 5 will ship in November 2020 and .NET 6 will ship in November 2021 as an LTS. .NET Core 3.1 was the fastest adopted .NET version ever. From @terrajobst post explaining the roadmap for .NET

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@gcaughey

3 years

Unfollowing a few people today who think there are always two valid sides to every argument.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

Thanks @MVPAward it's been fun! Huge thanks to the Windows Development product group for such great support through the years.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

How much memory does your app use? Interesting comparison from #MSIgnite session about React Native

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

It's official: All Microsoft conferences will be digital-only through July 2021.

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@gcaughey

5 years

I wrote a book about writing software many years ago and it was outdated almost as soon as it was published. I wrote some enterprise software many years ago and it's still in use all over the US and Canada and actively maintained. #WriteSoftwareNotBooks 😁

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@gcaughey

8 years

It's hard to imagine life before Visual Studio and yet here's proof.

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@gcaughey

4 months

In .NET 9 WPF gets optional Windows 11 theming with just a few lines of code. This will be released in November.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

10 months

The most empowering thing for people creating software is good documentation with examples.

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@gcaughey

5 years

Developers don't always know how their apps are really installed. I found out only yesterday that one of my customers installs our apps on Citrix by first installing on a PC and then using xcopy. Then they call us because parts don't work!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

4 years

Yippee!! 🎉🎈🧨 Sorry for all the noise, but getting down to only one remaining .NET app in our enterprise suite not converted to .NET Core is cause for celebration.

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@gcaughey

5 months

I'll be setting up a new Surface Laptop 6 today! Here's my TODO list for before I even begin working with my stuff. What have I forgotten?

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@gcaughey

6 years

Remember DLL Hell? There's also .NET version hell too. With .NET Core 3.0 this can be a thing of the past: apps no longer need to all target the same, single version of .NET as their runtimes. #MSBuild #BuildMC

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@gcaughey

6 years

For those wondering if anybody really cares about WinForms or WPF

Ben {chmark} Adams 🦇🔊

@ben_a_adams

6 years

WPF and WinForms are the trendiest things on GitHub today across all languages #dotnet #dotnetcore #MSFTConnect

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@gcaughey

2 years

What might we do to make .NET MAUI attractive to WinForms and WPF developers? Visual designer could be a good start. 😁

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@gcaughey

3 years

Your mileage may vary, but Windows 11 is running better my underspec’ed ARM PC than Windows 10 did.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

2 years

Q. Is UWP dead? A. No. #MSBuild #DevMC A2. New investment is going into WinAppSdk these days though.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

8 years

Why we no longer need HERE: New Features in Windows 10 Maps App

New Features in Windows 10 Maps App

Hello! I’m Kushal Kapoor, the Product Marketing Manager for the Windows Maps team. I’m excited to share new features in the Windows 10 Maps app released today to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring....

blogs.windows.com

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@gcaughey

5 years

Thanks to all my followers inside and outside Microsoft for this year’s @MVPAward renewal! Your conversations help me help others!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

1 year

If you're still on NET Framework or an older version of .NET Core, be sure to check out the .NET Upgrade Assistant. It's GA now and definitely worth a try!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

Tom is usually better than this. UWP isn't "dead" because Win32 is being supported. It's all about using the right software development technology for the purpose. Sometimes that's the tech you're already using as here.

Tom Warren

@tomwarren

5 years

Microsoft’s Universal Windows Platform app dream is dead and buried. The writing was on the wall for UWP for months, but today’s win32 games in the store announcement seals it. My thoughts:

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Windows 11 is looking even better today. I'm trying hard not to imagine it on a Surface Laptop Studio instead though.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

To celebrate Halloween here's something pretty scary.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

8 years

Docker support is just a right-click away in Visual Studio 2017. #MSFTConnect

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5 years

Windows 10 WinRT API Packs released - these allow your WPF or Winforms easily take advantage of features made available in this century like Geolocation, Windows AI, Machine Learning, etc., It's just a NuGet package away:

Windows 10 WinRT API Packs released

With the announcement of the release of .NET Core 3.0, we are pleased to announce we have posted on nuget.org the released versions of the Windows 10 WinRT API Pack. The Windows 10 WinRT API Pack...

blogs.windows.com

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6 years

Windows Community Toolkit now has its own org on GitHub with projects for UWP, WPF and WinForms. Check it out!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

7 years

People who already use Macs find Macs intuitive to use. The rest of us don't.

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1 year

If you think your .NET (or other) code might be able to run faster, the new instrumentation tool in Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 might help you find out where to improve. Details for the new tool are here:

Improving Visual Studio performance with the new Instrumentation Tool - Visual Studio Blog

Summary With the release of Visual Studio 2022 version 17.6 we are shipping our new and improved Instrumentation Tool in the Performance Profiler. Unlike the CPU Usage tool, the Instrumentation tool...

devblogs.microsoft.com

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

As a Windows client developer I'm intrigued by this abstract!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

All the students attending #MSBuild are getting a Surface Go. I really like mine and I'm tweeting from it now. I can also use it for light coding and even have SQL Server running on it, so not bad at all!

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Ginny Caughey

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4 months

This may not be your thing, but for me it's one of the most important themes from this year's MS Build conference.

Raji Rajagopalan

@thisisrajiraj

4 months

If you are using WPF, we want you to continue investing in it. We know many many customers have massive investments in it, we heard you, and we want to keep innovating for you.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

For the remaining UWP-is-dead crowd 😎

Rudy Huyn

@RudyHuyn

3 years

@AhmedWalid605 The previous Store was half HTML, the new one is fully UWP XAML!

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@gcaughey

5 years

Am I wrong to think that Xamarin and @UnoPlatform just got even more interesting for Windows developers?

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@gcaughey

5 years

So did Apple just invent Windows RT? Asking for a friend.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 months

Apple Intelligence takes snapshots of everything you do. It's ok because the processing is all on-device. Seems like a good idea, right?

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

3 years

Confirmed! @Sqlserver Management Studio, your turn. 😎

Zac Bowden

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3 years

Not sure when it happened but Visual Studio 2019 is now in the Microsoft Store on Windows 11 :D

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Ginny Caughey

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1 year

And in case you thought Windows was abandoning holographic to Apple, there's a new Windows 11 upgrade for HoloLens:

What’s new in Windows Holographic, version 23H1

We are pleased to announce that Windows Holographic version 23H1 is now available! In this article, we’ll cover the highlights of this release.

techcommunity.microsoft.com

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

The whole “X technology is dead” trope does get tiresome, but when journalists you respect do that when all the news is the exact opposite - well you have to question the quality of their reporting.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

5 years

It's #WindowsUglySweater time again!

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 years

Dear pragmatic Microsoft, I don't really care about MR in Sharepoint, but I'd really like to print receipts from UWP apps without having to use an app service kludge.

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Ginny Caughey

@gcaughey

6 months

Nice view from the airplane this morning. Bye, SEATAC. See you again in May!