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I'm glad I didn't put any effort into learning UWP. 
The difficult we do right away...
...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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It's definitely gotten to the point where I pause with any new MSFT tech to see if they'll stick with it.
TTFN - Kent
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Yeah, I had the same luck with Silverlight, by the time I got around to learning it, it had gone! UWP too.
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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Kent Sharkey wrote: Microsoft ways
Let me count the ways. 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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Everyone's an editor
TTFN - Kent
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Intel may soon reclaim supremacy in CPU speed benchmarks, where it has been overshadowed by Apple's Arm-based chips for the past year. It's *almost* like "newer chips are faster than older chips"?
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Collectively clocking in at nearly 60 trillion particles, a newly released set of cosmological simulations is by far the biggest ever produced. "Unfortunately, no one can be told what The Matrix is. You have to see it for yourself."
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To put that into perspective, 60 trillion is approximately 4.0x10^-13 percent of the number of electrons in your body, if I've done the math right (and there is no guarantee I have). How many electrons are in the average human body? - Quora
edit - since the amygdala is approximately 0.003% of your body weight, the 60 trillion particles work out to be about 0.000000013% of the amount of electrons present in your amydgala. Roughly.
modified 25-Oct-21 19:03pm.
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The Redmond giant announced the rollout on a support page last week, explaining that the Windows 11 PC Health Check app will be delivered automatically via Windows Update (KB5005463) on all devices running Windows 10 version 2004 or later. Coming soon: a big, red upgrade button!
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To meet a coming wave of hyper-automation, IT organizations need to do a better job of partnering with professionals outside of IT to automate business processes and data integration, according to research firm Gartner. If they're getting paid, wouldn't that mean they're also professional developers?
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Perhaps the tsunami of weird apps on the horizon, which will soon break, temporarily inundating the low-lying domains of naive users ... will ... once it recedes, result in more appreciation for "real" programmers and the complexity of application requirements for security, reliability, deployment on muiti-form factor devices, etc., that robust, useful, programs require ?
Or, maybe it's btowser uber alles ?
«The mind is not a vessel to be filled but a fire to be kindled» Plutarch
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Citizen purveyors of made-up bullshit already outnumber Gartner by several millions to 1. Or is that billions?
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I don't know about that - Gartner seems to have a load o' BS artists in their employ.
TTFN - Kent
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Hold it! So you and I are the only ones not employed by Gartner? 
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I'm less shocked that this query:
SELECT * FROM People WHERE UsesExcel = 1
returns significantly more data than this
SELECT * FROM People WHERE UsesRealProgramingLanguageTm = 1
one, than I am that it's only 4:1.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, weighing all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
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Twenty years on from the public release of Windows XP, the popular operating system is still regarded one of Microsoft’s greatest achievements. People just want to sit on that hill
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Is curl the most widely used software component in the world? If not, which one is? Swear words, coffee, and pizza?
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'Windows update still works on this machine and even installed the Patch Tuesday,' says Twitter user 'Carlos S.M.,' who managed to install the OS on the old Intel chip. Well...walks
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Wait til the first update...
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Hackers hijacked the popular UA-Parser-JS NPM library, with millions of downloads a week, to infect Linux and Windows devices with cryptominers and password-stealing trojans in a supply-chain attack. Hurrah for opaque shared code, part n of m
OK, not really opaque, but a lot of people seem to treat NPM-obtained code that way.
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Industry is pushing developers to learn as little as possible using tools that allow baboons to code, in order to keep them hooked to these tools so they can keep selling them over and over again.
On the other hand, the same industry cries the loss of firmware developers, which nowadays are in extreme demand.
GCS d--(d-) s-/++ a C++++ U+++ P- L+@ E-- W++ N+ o+ K- w+++ O? M-- V? PS+ PE- Y+ PGP t+ 5? X R+++ tv-- b+(+++) DI+++ D++ G e++ h--- r+++ y+++* Weapons extension: ma- k++ F+2 X
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Scientists ask the public for help in figuring out which signals are real. Found one! It was right under my feet. (oh, they wanted 'new' planets)
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Obligatory xkcd: Brightness
Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows.
-- 6079 Smith W.
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.NET 6 will now include Hot Reload across multiple platforms. Microsoft (spades) Open Source
Or
dotnet watch Microsoft
or
"No man is entitled to the blessings of freedom unless he be vigilant in its preservation."
TTFN - Kent
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