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Jen Gentleman
@JenMsft@mastodon.social
mastodon 4.8.0-nightly.2026-10-06I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more
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Joined November 18, 2022
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*whispers* I'm getting a kitten tomorrow
Husband: Why is there a random fork on this shelf?
Me: That's a legacy fork
(He just looks at me and sighs)
Hey cutie
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"let's just cancel the meeting" - the 5 little words every girl wants to hear
Tell me you have a cat without telling me you have a cat
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"This meeting could have been an email"
This meeting would have been an email if you had responded to your email
The police found a drained robot at the crime scene - they were going to have to charge him
RE: https://mastodon.social/@JenMsft/116988027800454298
I'm going to call her Coco
Bath time 🛀
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Social media right now
If to err is to human then why won't they let me make mistakes when solving captchas
One day maybe I will have the confidence of someone scheduling a last minute Monday morning 9am meeting
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"I should buy some, I'll eat them at a normal rate this time"
☝️ This is a trap
Putting out an ant trap - is this debugging?
Me: This is a tomorrow me problem
Tomorrow me: Fuck
Risk Astley was fired by Blockbuster because of how he handled Disney movies - he wouldn't give you Up
Don't forget to wish your motherboard happy mothers day today
Pavlov's hair must have been really soft because he was great at conditioning
"Spirited Away is now 25 years old"
Why has two thumbs and just spilled Reese's pieces all over her snack box
Looking at the kids running around in the street
Look how excited and care free they are
They have no meetings
"Can anyone help with my Windows issue?"
I look at the screenshot
It's windows 7 😨
Little thing rolling out with the latest updates - the address bar in File Explorer can now understand paths even if they're in quotes or have double backslashes 😊
https://support.microsoft.com/topic/june-23-2026-kb5095093-os-builds-26200-8737-and-26100-8737-preview-0e2a20f2-cf9e-46f8-9f08-e6996220882d
#Windows
Check email
Oh, an unread email
Open the email
Sigh as I realize it's the email I marked as unread 5 min ago to go look at later
What's your favourite PowerToys utility?
Http://aka.ms/PowerToys
https://learn.microsoft.com/windows/powertoys/
#Windows #Tech
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(including the previous / forward history)
Well, I can't say for sure it's supported in every single browser, but it's supported in edge / chrome / firefox / etc
Did you know about all of these? 👀
https://www.windowscentral.com/microsoft/windows-11/i-looked-through-reddit-to-find-the-windows-11-features-people-actually-use
"In an attempt at positivity today, what are some examples of non-enshitification?"
Anywhere that lets you do online booking / reservations rather than having to call
The past, present, and future walked into a bar. The bartender stared disbelieving—it was tense
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@Axolotl1@gaygeek.social haha I guess it's probably harder to notice over on mastodon, but since I'm active everywhere it's all I've seen a bunch of people talk about for days - Google added a little animation if you search for him, WOW is adding him, Roku added him to Roku city, etc. Our own little Seattle mascot
We're making a bunch of improvements to search - including settings to turn off web or store results for those that would prefer not to use them
As always, appreciate your feedback 🙏
https://blogs.windows.com/windows-insider/2026/07/13/improving-windows-search-box-with-less-clutter-and-more-control/
#Windows
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@kevinmirsky@infosec.exchange I'm already almost done the bag and I bought them on Sunday lol
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@infoseclogger@infosec.exchange Middle click in general on a link acts as "open in a new tab" - works on the back/forward buttons too!
This is an appreciation post for backup cameras in cars