News and analysis on Microsoft: GitHub, TypeScript, Windows, .NET, MSVC and Secure Boot.
The August 2026 MSVC Build Tools Preview fixes 40 reported compiler bugs and adds real ARM64 codegen work, including Armv9.2 LUTI2 lookup-table support. It targets Visual Studio 2026 v14.52 and ships through both the Stable and Insiders channels.
A deep look at how Microsoft's Go-based TypeScript 7 compiler achieves its speed gains, and what the Visual Studio Code team's year-long migration reveals about adopting it safely.
Microsoft is displaying escalating Secure Boot warnings starting May 13 (Windows 10) and May 16 (Windows 11). The original 2011 certificates expire in October 2026. Unpatched systems may refuse to boot. Here's the full technical picture and what to do.
Linus built Git in 10 days. GitHub became where open source lives. Then Microsoft paid $7.5B, killed Atom, trained Copilot on your code, corrupted main branches with a merge queue bug, and folded the whole thing into CoreAI. Here's the full story.
BlueHammer is an unpatched, publicly released Windows local privilege escalation exploit that chains Microsoft Defender's update workflow, Volume Shadow Copy, Cloud Files callbacks, and opportunistic locks to reach NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM from a standard user account.
Microsoft gave OpenAI $13 billion and exclusive cloud access. OpenAI took the money, restructured itself into a for-profit company, handed a $50 billion deal to Amazon instead, and is now building a competitor to GitHub. This is what a corporate backstab looks like in slow motion.
OpenAI is building a GitHub competitor — a technical breakdown of Git internals, version control history, and what this move signals about OpenAI's strategy.
