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I don't know what "working on it" really means. Isn't Scott's job a sort of Azure/Windows developer relations gig? podcasts and speaking slots and Build demos. How is he working on it in any meaningful sense?

Not a knock on the guy, but it seems that fixing windows is way out of his wheelhouse and so the tweet has no value to me as a marker of any kind of tangible progress

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He’s an evangelist. I noticed he has recently been pushing GitHub Copilot CLI… my guess is to help push internal MS people to stop using Claude Code.

Imagine thinking that Scott fucking Hanselman isn't qualified to work on Windows. Jesus dude.

As far as I know, he would be more into application programming, not systems programming (if anything). But I might be wrong.

Mark Russinovich would be a different story, but he seems to be mostly concerned with Azure nowadays.

What is he known for? Glancing at his github he seems very oriented around windows (which supports your point), but I wouldn't even know what to look for beyond that.

He is a evangelist for cloud and .NET. he was one of the 5 public faces who moved .NET to open source in 2011 and beyond.

Anything concrete? Because "corporate evangelist" is very low in the ranking of roles I'd trust, and .NET evangelist even less.

The .NET evangelist of that generation have been more than fine. No bullshit, no false promises, no lies, etc. Focused on communicating the change towards Linux, the performance work and so much more.

Scott is well connected in the dev and azure divisions. He has headlined dev conferences etc. But as an evangelist he only carries information. This change will not happen because of him but maybe with him. But I do not believe so. To much money at risk.

So?

Yeah, correct. There is no reason to believe he can change that for Windows. But he will know where to address it really. But it will not change. Too much money at risk

He is a full time nauseating AI shill. If you happen to listen to his recent appearance on Software Engineering Radio podcast, you may just die of cringe. I had my final straw moment on AI hype during that podcast and my first I wish someone would bully that nerd moment.

Scott Hanselman is awesome, has a good connections in the dev and cloud folks (Scott Guthrie corner). He has some influence but he cannot shape Windows like that. I think what he says is that he advocates for it but I have zero hope.

I have zero hope, but he MIGHT have the ear of the people making the decisions and he might make a good point how if all of the "family tech support" people get pissed off about account requirements and move to Linux ... they'll start suggesting that to their families too which is kinda bad in the long run.

Even though it's been said many times that MS doesn't give a fuck about personal users, their money comes almost 100% from companies using Windows. Gaming computers etc. are a rounding error.

Qualified and can bend the org are 2 different things. Although he can probably bend the org too!

I've literally never heard of this man whom you think is so notable his very name would imply his qualification. He's not that noteworthy, dude.

I dunno ive been reading his material for 20 years, so I guess my perspective is different? His posts even more than a decade ago have more than demonstrated his competency.

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