What has Larry been doing for two years (and why has the blog been dark for so long)?

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As many of you may know, I tend to blog about things I encounter in my day-to-day work that I think might be of general interest.  And for the past two years, even though I've run into things that were "blog-worthy", I couldn't write about them in public.  And thus no blog posts.

But that's changed now that the //Build conference is over.  I can finally talk about some of the things I've worked on over the past few years.  Most of the things will come through more official channels: the "Building Windows 8" blog, the windows dev center, etc.  But I do hope to write more about what I have done in the past and what I'm doing these days.

So what *have* I been doing for the past two years?  After we shipped Windows 7, I moved from the Windows Audio team to a new team known as the "Runtime Experience" team.  The Runtime Experience team is responsible for the architectural elements that make up the new "Windows Runtime" which is a part of the next version of Windows.  My development manager, Martyn Lovell gave a great talk at the //Build conference about the runtime here. 

My work has focused on developer tools to enable authoring windows runtime APIs and designing the metadata format used to represent the windows runtime APIs.  It's a bit esoteric and geeky, but I've had a huge amount of fun working on this over the past two years. 

Anyway, that's a very brief version of my job, and as I said, I hope to be able to write more often in the near future.

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  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2011
    Good to have you back with us, and I'm sure you've got plenty of interesting WinRT discussions/insights to share.

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2011
    Now I finally have an answer to that question you couldn't answer two years ago when I was roaming the hallways with Charles. :) It sounds very cool, like the kind I of thing I would probably enjoy working on as well. I hope you'll have some stories to share.

  • Anonymous
    September 16, 2011
    Charles from C9? Anyway not exactly dark, but certainly less populated... (BTW: How far are you with that Station? :D )

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    September 16, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2011
    Yay! Larry's back! I'm looking forward to the upcoming posts.

  • Anonymous
    September 17, 2011
    That would make this slide very misleading: davidburela.files.wordpress.com/.../clip_image0014.png

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    September 18, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    September 18, 2011
    There's been some ... discussion ... in various places about whether WinRT really is a peer of Win32 or not.  Are you able to comment on this?  To what extent does WinRT depend on Win32?

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    September 20, 2011
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  • Anonymous
    September 20, 2011
    Welcome back Larry !

  • Anonymous
    September 21, 2011
    I see some exciting developments in Windows 8 for audio such as hardware-offloaded audio processing (msdn.microsoft.com/.../br259116). Is anyone from Microsoft blogging about these? I mean to whom can I redirect my audio-related questions now? :)

  • Anonymous
    September 22, 2011
    Where can I redirect my audio related queries for Windows 8 now? :)

  • Anonymous
    September 27, 2011
    @Klimx: No. @xpclient: I don't now, I'd look on the b8 blog for more info.

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    November 28, 2011
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