software is eating the world - and spitting most of it back out again looking slightly chewed, soggy and half-eaten, as it moves on to the next thing that you used to be able to rely on

raises a fascinating question about the real value of employee experience. individual productivity gain, especially from Copilot, seems real for those making it part of their workflow, but do CIOs think that justifies the cost compared to systems that MAKE rather than save money?

A reality check on generative AI in enterprises. After all the hype, deployment is still cautious and there are plenty of pitfalls: I talk to people who have deployed about what works, what doesn't, when traditional AI is good enough & where the wins are. cio.com/article/2096857/expe…

for subscribers: my deep dive into what's inside an Office document file, how to crack them opening like treating them as a ZIP, what you find when you do that and what useful data you may be able to extract. next time I'll look just at Excel innards askwoody.com/newsletter/did-…

96% of US hospital websites share visitor info with Meta, Google, data brokers buff.ly/3Q1yqCd

23/31 in #WomensHistoryMonth is @marypcbuk - Mary is a techjournalist from the UK, writes books about #Azure #AI and is a long term industry expert - I just hoped she has a less pixelized profile picture ;-) #womenintech

As many Americans’ primary source of UK news I am duty bound to inform everyone that the “missing Kate” story is over & the British media is now encouraging ppl to kill each other in the streets because of a flag the size of a grape on the back of some millionaires’ shirts

for AskWoody subscribers: I explain the new usernames in Signal and cover the options for using Signal if you don't have a smartphone (say you want it on an Android tablet or for a smarthome device that sends alerts). Plus, why there's no Signal for web askwoody.com/newsletter/tax-…

Our lab, Microsoft Research AI Frontiers, is hiring MULTIPLE researchers and engineers at all levels. Links below. #AIagents #LLMs #AutoGen

Very excited to announce Retina - an open source cloud native platform for network observability retina.sh

ICYMI: @CloudNativeFdn wasmCloud 1.0 is here! Components-first, production-ready, wasmCloud 1.0 is full of new features inc. seamless networking with wRPC, vendor-less app components & OpenTelemetry as standard! Juicy details on the blog 🎉💚 hubs.li/Q02p_Bz_0

we keep the screenshot on the office wall to remind us (we also have a sampler Simon's mum made us as a wedding present and at the time I thought I would not need reminding of the date of our anniversary LOL mother in law was right!)

this is part one of my Signal feature: part two drops next week with the expert tips and if you're an Ask Woody subscriber, come chat about things like how to get Signal working on an Android tablet (this week's article is in the free newsletter) askwoody.com/newsletter/secu…

I started using Signal in earnest when I heard username support was coming, because I don't want to hand my phone number out to everyone I want to chat to. It's so useful I thought I should write up how to get secure messaging on Windows with Signal askwoody.com/newsletter/secu…

Store revenue pays the bills and salaries of the wsa team. WSL acrues to azure and vs so has a profit center. WSA without a store is awesome but doesn't help windows financially

Amazon is never going to be a replacement for Google when it comes to supplying Android apps