@davidfowl Took my son and his friends to see Weapons last summer. They are still shook lol.
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Marcus Ash
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Marcus Ash
@marcusash
Leading Design and Research for Windows + Devices @Microsoft. #GoBlue
Seattle, WA Katılım Mayıs 2007
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I love horror movies, I finally carved out enough time to watch the last conjuring and weapons. Weapons was a weird one but good
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@ChuZhen1 Appreciate it another chance that we earn based on our upcoming improvements.
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@marcusash I left Insider Preview (Dev) last year when you keep introducing AI but nothing else but I keep tab on the change log. I hope the changes for the next few month will bring me back to the Insider Preview.
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There’s a lot of work underway that Pavan shared earlier today. Something that I know has been at the top of a lot of people’s minds is the feeling that feedback goes into a void, without real people to review and see it on the other side.
To help with that, I’ll be taking on an expanded role as the exec sponsor of the Windows Insider Program to listen, engage, and help shape what’s ahead with the Windows community.
Over the coming weeks, we’ll also introduce you to members of the product teams that will help you get answers on the topics you care about most.
I’d love to hear from you. What would you like to see more of from us as we get started?
Pavan Davuluri@pavandavuluri
The team and I have spent the past several months analyzing feedback from the community. What came through was the voice of people who care deeply about Windows and want it to be better. Read this blog post to learn more about what we're doing in response as we look to raise the bar on Windows 11 quality. Please keep the feedback coming, to help us shape the future of Windows together. blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…
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@iAmBipinPaul @zacbowden @mixen and @Pete_Brown are here for all the feedback. We partner closely on the features and design of the developer experience in Windows.
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@marcusash @zacbowden Who leads the developer experience team, and to whom can I send feedback related to developer experience?
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Diego leads our Windows design team and is running the squad focused on Start and Taskbar improvements. Great person to follow/ask anything that is on your mind about our design decisions. Or his passion for the history of Windows and LEGO.
Diego Baca@bacadd
Super excited for this 🎉 The team has been cooking up 🧑🍳 a lot of improvements… stay tuned!
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@mdreinders Great feedback, something @JenMsft and I are talking to the team about.
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@marcusash One aspect I personally would love to see is a sort of 'direct feedback' communication platform. I know of the new Feedback Hub, but if there were 'Usenet' groups :) that we could post in, maybe a public Discord server or other tool, that would be wonderful!
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@CrazyCatsGot2 Thank you Susan! Would be great for me, you and @JenMsft to connect.
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@marcusash Welcome Marcus! As an Insider for 11 1/2 years, an exWIMVP, a VM on the Answers forum and now a Mod on Q&A I'm very involved with Insiders. I've communicated with Brandon, Jason and Jen thru Teams about many issues. Would love to be able to communicate on Teams.
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@tinrocha @AdamFilipMiko For sure, that is where our primary focus is.
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@marcusash @AdamFilipMiko I think it's better not to spend effort and time obscuring old interfaces, they need to be modernized (WinUI).
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@bughuntergeek @DDame leads our human factors design team and is passionate about all things voice. Good feedback and we are working on all of them. Curious to hear any specific feedback you have about our Win + H and our fluid dictation experience.
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@marcusash Much better on-device voice typing. Much higher stability. Less updates, but higher quality updates.
Performance improvements for gaming. Better animations of apps (especially Windows apps).
These are the things I'd love to have on Windows.
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@xarcrius @ariaupdated and team are on it. more to share very soon.
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@marcusash Simplify the Insider Rings.
Talk to Insiders like they’re humans instead of corporate suits at a PowerPoint presentation. The Insider blogs has been checkboxes in the recent years where no one cares, and sounds like it’s all written by Copilot.
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@majornelson Appreciate it sir, high praise coming from the OG of building fans 🙏🏽
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@marcusash Great news. A lot of opportunity ahead.
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Many of you know @JenMsft. She has been *instrumental* in shaping the work we are committing to do in synthesizing a whole lotta of feedback. She is my key partner in ramping and in taking WIP forward. Expect to see and hear more from us as a team. Thank you Jen for all you do in keeping us grounded in the voice of our customers. 🙏🏽
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@tigkindel Charlie! We are going to recreate some of that Windows Phone magic. We need to have a reunion and kick off "project glass" this summer.
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@Lexcyn Facts. In addition to diving into this effort, @shanselman is working with my team on all kinds of fun projects related to the UX and input modalities of Windows for developers and enthusiasts. Privilege to work with and learn from him.
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OK this proves to me that Microsoft is actually serious about making things better. Scott is THE MAN.
Scott Hanselman 🌮@shanselman
Working on this is part of my new job! Even more to come blogs.windows.com/windows-inside…
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@AdamFilipMiko We're also working on the CFR point, we want you to get access to features with more control over deciding what you want to see. @ariaupdated is our product expert and will share when improvements are coming to WIP.
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@marcusash 1/2 One thing that needs to change is CFR. The point of testing pre-release software/features is to actually get a hands-on experience with them.
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You will see various product experts getting active in the Windows Insider community. @ariaupdated works on all the things related to Windows Update and commercial management. I asked her to join our WIP reboot effort because of her passion for our customer communities. And authenticity in keeping it real in representing them within MSFT.
ariaupdated@ariaupdated
I'm so excited about the renewed focus on quality and lived user experience - both as an engineer helping to build it and as a #Windows user. I'm especially excited to be bringing more control over #updates + fewer reboots! As we keep focusing in here: #BringOnTheFeedback! 🥳
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@JanRingos @AdamFilipMiko Tough work for sure, but our recent work in dark theme for the Run dialog had us touching COMCTL to support this as a property. Now we are working to figure out how to safely scale this approach.
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@AdamFilipMiko @marcusash That would require a deep dive into Win32 layer to extend it of new capabilities and features.
It won't happen. Touching these parts is politically forbidden since Windows 8. And it CAN'T happen because most programmers capable of doing it have long since left Microsoft.
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@AdamFilipMiko Thanks Adam. We started with extending dark mode in the Run dialog and various File Explorer surfaces to address customer asks. At the same time, we are building out tooling to scale modernizing other dialogs across Windows 11 that were built in legacy frameworks.
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@marcusash 2/2 Another thing I'd love to see is more modernized parts of basic UI. Dark mode updates for dialogs are welcome but that's just catching up to what should have been released with W10. Transparency effects need to implemented in those parts for consistency UX/UI design.
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@donasarkar Dona! I remember the original days of the Insider program. You left a great legacy for me and the team. Go Blue!
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@marcusash Oh you will absolutely LOVE doing this job and I hope you get out on the road and meet #WindowsInsiders in various places in the world. That was always my favorite thing 💝
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