I got up this morning, started my day as usual, logged myself and it wasn’t until 4pm when I saw that my schedule hadn’t been loaded on Playvox so I asked my boss who then checked with the WFM team – it appears that since I worked on Tuesday I got to have my day off on Friday but neither my boss nor I were informed of what was taking place.
Microsoft Edge released an update today which updated from version 142.0.3595.53 to version 142.0.3595.65 – I haven’t noticed any visible changes so far but it has been fairly reliable. A new build for the Windows canary channel has been made available (link) with the impression I get is that they’re still a lot of ‘under the hood changes’. We’ll probably see it become the basis of 26H2 in much the same way we’ve seen a tick-tock like strategy where there is a big platform upgrade then followed with refinement in the next yearly released then there is another big upgrade and so on. We saw that with the big upgrade with 24H2 with 25H2 being based on the same system core – pushing the platform forward and then working on refining it with the next release while stabilising the core.
As we’ve seen, Microsoft is making use of Rust where it was used when re-writing the GDI region (link) so I wouldn’t be surprised if we end up seeing Microsoft move more of the functionality over to Rust. There is also the work being done on ram diagnostic (link) where I think that, combined with the work being done with ‘Administrator Protection’ and an API for security applications (to avoid another Crowdstrike fiasco) it appears that the promises of greater reliability and security is taking place with the establishing of tools that’ll enable them to address the issues as well as mitigate the issues with better APIs and using languages that make writing secure code a lot easier.
There is a rumoured 26H1 that is specific for the Qualcomm X2 Elite SoC makes me wonder whether 26220.7051 being moved from the dev channel to the beta channel makes me wonder whether the 26220 build will be the basis of 26H1 which will provide a stable foundation for new hardware support with the 27982 build going forward will include under the hood optimisations, hardware support and user visible features appearing in 26H2. There are user visible features found in the current release but not visible in the canary channel but that has more to do with the fact that the features are built in but not enabled rather than the features not being present.
I am subscribed to quite a few podcasts but the main ones I like to subscribe two are: Rev Left Radio, Guerilla History for long form left wing discussions regarding politics, religion and philosophy. Accidental Tech Podcast, Windows Central, Windows Weekly, 9to5 Happy Hour and a few others when it comes to technology. I also follow some news from New Zealand such as NBR (National Business Review), a few Radio New Zealand interview shows along with the Big Hairy News on the days when I miss seeing it live on YouTube. I’m not too sure whether it would be considered a podcast but Bradbury Group is a good weekly panel show – reminds me very much of the The McLaughlin Group and The Ralston Group with quick fire rounds of questions.
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