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December’s Windows updates closed the year with a steady stream of practical improvements for enterprise administrators, security teams, and endpoint managers — from a major Secure Boot readiness campaign to storage and encryption upgrades that promise measurable performance and security gains...

Microsoft has publicly denied that Windows 11 is being “rewritten by AI” after a viral LinkedIn hiring post from a senior engineer — which used the now‑memetic phrase “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code” — sparked widespread alarm across tech press and forums. Background The...

Microsoft’s rapid retreat from an apparent plan to “rewrite Windows with AI” crystallizes a deeper story about how research, recruitment language, and public perception can collide — and why the difference between research experiment and product roadmap matters for every IT pro who manages...

When a senior Microsoft engineer posted a recruitment message that read like a manifesto — “My goal is to eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030” with the provocative north‑star “1 engineer, 1 month, 1 million lines of code” — the internet did what it does best: it turned an...

Microsoft’s terse LinkedIn post about a hire — and the flurry of headlines that followed — sparked one of the biggest industry debates of the week: is Microsoft actually going to rewrite Windows 11 in Rust using AI? The short answer is: not in the sensational way many outlets reported. What...

Microsoft’s engineering playbook has a new headline goal: eliminate “every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030” — and the company is openly recruiting for the program. The plan, as described by Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt in a public hiring post, combines algorithmic program analysis...

Microsoft’s software stack is on the move: in December 2025 a senior Microsoft engineer publicly framed an audacious plan to remove every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030, using a hybrid of algorithmic program analysis, large‑scale AI agents, and hands‑on engineering to translate legacy...

Microsoft’s engineering ranks have quietly put a stake in the ground: a LinkedIn hiring post from Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt sets an audacious target to “eliminate every line of C and C++ from Microsoft by 2030,” and to do it by combining large-scale algorithmic program analysis with...

Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt has posted a provocative, highly publicized mandate: use a blend of algorithmic program analysis and AI agents to replace every line of C and C++ inside Microsoft with Rust by 2030, backed by a striking “North Star” productivity claim — “1 engineer, 1...

Microsoft’s engineering gamble — to use AI to rewrite millions of lines of legacy C and C++ into Rust by 2030 — landed squarely in the spotlight this winter after a months‑long string of Windows 11 malfunctions and a formal Microsoft support advisory that traced the outages to XAML registration...

Microsoft’s latest engineering gambit is as audacious as it is literal: replace the company’s legacy C and C++ estate with Rust by 2030, using a blend of algorithmic tooling and AI to mass‑rewrite code at scale — a plan distilled into an evocative (if headline‑hungry) goal sometimes summarized...