Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich used AI to port ZoomIt, a Windows screen zooming and annotation tool he created over 20 years ago, to macOS in just two days. The AI-assisted effort achieved approximately 90% functionality, far exceeding Russinovich's expectations for what would normally require months of manual development work.
Microsoft has elevated Rust to Tier-1 language status alongside C++, C#, and TypeScript for internal development. The company introduced rustc_codegen_utc, a new code generation backend that integrates Rust with the MSVC compiler ecosystem, enabling seamless interoperability, unified tooling, and consistent security workflows across hybrid Rust/C++ projects on Windows.