cross architecture

Microsoft appears to be quietly funding an ambitious effort — codenamed “Project Strong ARMed” in recent hiring adverts — to accelerate the migration of large x64 codebases to Arm64 across some parts of the company using AI-powered software engineering agents. The public fragments (job listings...

Dave Plummer’s confession that his port of 3D Pinball for Windows — the Space Cadet table so many of us grew up with — once drew frames “as fast as it could” and reportedly hit roughly 5,000 FPS on newer hardware has resurfaced a powerful, funny and instructive moment in Windows engineering...

Dave Plummer’s off‑hand confession that his Windows NT port of the beloved 3D Pinball: Space Cadet rendered “as fast as it could” and eventually spiked into the thousands of frames per second is a compact engineering parable: a tiny timing assumption left unchecked, harmless on 1990s hardware...

Dave Plummer’s confession that the worst bug he ever shipped was tied to the beloved Windows pack‑in game Pinball is more than a nostalgic anecdote — it’s a compact lesson in resource management, legacy code risk, and the kind of tiny design decisions that can balloon into systemic problems as...

Microsoft's brief on the hardware floor for running Android apps on Windows 11 boils down to a simple, pragmatic message: you need a modern PC — preferably with an SSD, virtualization enabled, and at least 8 GB of RAM (16 GB recommended) — and even then the practical value of that capability is...

Hot on the heels of several incremental updates across its various Insider channels, Microsoft has released Windows 11 Canary Build 27909 to the fast-evolving preview community. While this release won't dazzle with new features or radical UI overhauls, it provides essential bug fixes that...