Michael West

Want to take this moment to appreciate the awesome people I work with here on the design team. So much energy and passion pushing forward craft on Windows. And there’s much more to come.

Search is one of those places in Windows where small amounts of friction add up quickly. Opening an app. Finding a file. Changing a setting. Getting the right result should feel clear and focused. Excited to see these Search updates go live. The Windows Search Box is getting calmer, easier to scan, giving you more control over web and Store suggestions, and also improving how results appear across apps, settings, files, and more. Read more here: blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…

Hello from London. Great day so far! Excited to be here and connect with you all in a couple hours for the final stop of this season’s Windows Insider meetup tour. See you soon!

Builds aside, I’m looking forward to seeing some of you in London with the team! 🙂

Great seeing all the recent Terminal releases getting flighted, especially Intelligent Terminal. I’ve been loving this capability. I set up a lot of devices, and getting a new machine back to my ideal workflow state always takes time. One way I’ve been using Intelligent Terminal is to get bootstrapped fast. Excited to see the latest update. More on it from the Terminal team here: devblogs.microsoft.com/commandline/in…

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@Ryan__Stephen incredible work! 🙌

Proud to be part of the team behind Project Solara. It’s been incredibly exciting to design and prototype fluid, intelligent interfaces for agent-first devices.

Energized to be back at Build with the developer community and share what we have been building. Today, we're introducing new @Windows capabilities designed to meet developers where they are with less friction and more flexibility, across local and cloud, any language, any framework. blogs.windows.com/windowsdevelop…

Meet the new Surface RTX Spark Dev Box 🔥. Every detail of this experience was intentional, from purposeful configuration to preinstalled tools. We can't wait to see what you build with it. blogs.windows.com/devices/2026/0…

Introducing Surface Laptop Ultra. Built for world makers. Designed for what's next. The most powerful Surface laptop ever. Coming Fall 2026. Sign up to learn more: msft.it/6019vw79T

Introducing NVIDIA DGX Station for Windows, the world's most powerful deskside AI supercomputer with Windows powered by NVIDIA GB300. ✅ Run frontier AI models with up to 1 trillion parameters locally ✅ Build and run secure AI agents on Windows with NVIDIA OpenShell ✅ Built by @ASUS, @Dell, @GIGABYTE, @HP, @msigaming, and @Supermicro #NVIDIAGTC nvda.ws/3RIkjpc

This is the NVIDIA RTX Spark Superchip. A new beginning for personal computers. Designed for creators, AI developers, and gamers, RTX Spark brings over 30 years of NVIDIA innovation to slim Windows laptops and small, ultra-efficient desktop PCs.

Introducing a powerful new chapter for @Windows PCs, accelerated by @nvidia RTX Spark blogs.windows.com/windowsexperie…

A new era of PC. 25.0528, 121.5990

Something new is coming for developers. And no, it’s not a new OS version 😅. See you at Build next week!

One of the things people value most about Windows is making the PC feel like their own. People customize their desktop in very specific ways to fit how they work. Taskbar positioning and app labels are good examples. When I’m using voice typing to draft communications, I have adopted taskbar on the left with app labels on so I can keep reference material like a web page, document, emails, and chats visible by title. More vertical space, and more context at a glance while I’m pulling my thoughts together. We’ll share this and more at our Windows Insider meetup next week at //build in SF.

One of my favorite (new) features we have designed into the Windows shell. How should Windows "feel" so various operations like snapping windows feel fluid? Coming to more PCs and peripherals soon!

Want to tell the product team what's missing in Windows before a feature ships, not after? We're opening that channel. Direct access, real research, your voice in the room. Sign up: aka.ms/windows-listens

Your PC, your way 🎉. Rolling out more personalization improvements to Windows Insiders, including moving your taskbar to any edge of the screen, and making taskbar smaller. Read on to see what you can start trying today in the Experimental channel 👇: aka.ms/WIPTaskbarStart

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