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Talk about making a news story out of nothing! Here's the job ad directly from Microsoft (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/922184/Senior-Software-Enginee

Talk about making a news story out of nothing! Here's the job ad directly from Microsoft (https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/922184/Senior-Software-Engineer https://careers.microsoft.com/us/en/job/922184/Senior-Softwa...): > The Windows Core User Experiences team builds interfaces for Windows and Surface Hub customers around the world, and we’re looking for a collaborative, inclusive and customer obsessed engineer to help us build the future of Windows Experiences! > On this team, you’ll orchestrate and deliver experiences that ensure Windows is a great user experience for our customers. > You will have the opportunity to build delightful, polished, experiences for Windows as well as for our Surface Hub product line. You will play a key role in open-ended explorations, prototyping and identifying business opportunities for Windows experiences. We're looking for collaborative engineers to bring their passion, drive and technical acumen to help us accomplish these goals. > We have a wide spectrum of fantastic opportunities to further advance your career and expand your skillset – from building UI using the latest cutting-edge XAML technologies, designing new APIs in conjunction with the our platform team partners, to interfacing with hardware teams to build the essential platform and infrastructure in our OS - as well as working directly with our customers to understand their needs and deliver magical software that exceeds their expectations! How do they get from that to "This UI refresh will reportedly include an overhaul to the Start Menu, Action Center and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps" is my question? Sounds like a normal job ad for any UI or design related engineer.

interestica 6y ago
> reportedly They reported it. It's now reportedly. And all other sites can also mention "reportedly" as well now too.
ChrisLomont 6y ago
> Talk about making a news story out of nothing! .... The article states your post is the job posting after it was edited. The original had the text: "On this team, you'll work with our key platform, Surface, and OEM partners to orchestrate and deliver a sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences to signal to our customers that Windows is BACK and ensure that Windows is considered the best user OS experience for customers"
- jodrellblank 6y ago
  Rejuvenation: The process of rendering young again. Windows 3.11 is due for a fashionable return!
- capableweb 6y ago
  Still, with that (reportedly) missing paragraph, it's still a large jump from vague "sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences" to conclusive "overhaul to the Start Menu, Action Center and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps". But hardly the first times news organizations add their own flair to stuff.
  - richardwhiuk 6y ago
    Yeah, that could mean roughly anything at all.
  - ChrisLomont 6y ago
    What times in the past did Microsoft make a "sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences" that didn't include an "overhaul of the Start Menu, Action center, and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps"? Keyword here is visual. Every one I just looked at revamped all the things you claim is a large jump. Given that every previous one seemed to make those changes, I think a large jump would be to conclude this one will not.
gwbas1c 6y ago
> Windows Latest spotted the job posting this week, which was posted by Microsoft in October, The link says it was posted on Jan 4
Arainach 6y ago
Thanks for some sanity. This looks like a standard job form. I worked on the Windows Core UX team for a very long time (technically, it was renamed from Core UX to Core Experiences Evolved to Desktop Experience to..... I might have forgotten one, but it was renamed to Core UX shortly before I left), and this could have been the job posting for my team at any point.

interestica 6y ago

> reportedly They reported it. It's now reportedly. And all other sites can also mention "reportedly" as well now too.

ChrisLomont 6y ago

> Talk about making a news story out of nothing! .... The article states your post is the job posting after it was edited. The original had the text: "On this team, you'll work with our key platform, Surface, and OEM partners to orchestrate and deliver a sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences to signal to our customers that Windows is BACK and ensure that Windows is considered the best user OS experience for customers"

jodrellblank 6y ago
Rejuvenation: The process of rendering young again. Windows 3.11 is due for a fashionable return!
capableweb 6y ago
Still, with that (reportedly) missing paragraph, it's still a large jump from vague "sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences" to conclusive "overhaul to the Start Menu, Action Center and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps". But hardly the first times news organizations add their own flair to stuff.
- richardwhiuk 6y ago
  Yeah, that could mean roughly anything at all.
- ChrisLomont 6y ago
  What times in the past did Microsoft make a "sweeping visual rejuvenation of Windows experiences" that didn't include an "overhaul of the Start Menu, Action center, and some in-box/bundled Microsoft apps"? Keyword here is visual. Every one I just looked at revamped all the things you claim is a large jump. Given that every previous one seemed to make those changes, I think a large jump would be to conclude this one will not.

gwbas1c 6y ago

> Windows Latest spotted the job posting this week, which was posted by Microsoft in October, The link says it was posted on Jan 4

Arainach 6y ago

Thanks for some sanity. This looks like a standard job form. I worked on the Windows Core UX team for a very long time (technically, it was renamed from Core UX to Core Experiences Evolved to Desktop Experience to..... I might have forgotten one, but it was renamed to Core UX shortly before I left), and this could have been the job posting for my team at any point.