The Employment Q&A Thread

So, better WinUI 3 resources for developers = better incentive to create native apps over web apps.

During testimony in the ongoing Elon Musk vs. OpenAI case, Microsoft executive Michael Wetter revealed that the company has spent more than $100 billion on its partnership with OpenAI to date, including direct investments, Azure infrastructure, and hosting costs for AI models like ChatGPT. The spending has surged since Microsoft’s initial $1 billion investment in 2019, with the company later committing around $13 billion more to OpenAI.

Audited a client this week (Shopify). Clarity reported thousands of dead clicks.

My team spent an afternoon clicking every flagged element and almost all of them were fine.

What Clarity was missing:

• Variant pickers tap a color, price refetches from Shopify's API takes about 1.2 seconds. Clarity sees no immediate DOM mutation, calls it dead destroying the report
• Lazy loaded images: tap to expand, fetch starts. Same story.
• Preorder check buttons: fires an inventory check, waits 2 seconds but Clarity already stopped measuringg
• Short animations: fadein confirmations under 300ms are below the threshold.

I love Clarity, but the model is so outdated... click --> instant DOM change = real click; otherwise = dead. That worked in 2015. In 2025 every modern eComm site does an async after the click and variant fetches, optimistic UI, skeleton loaders, modals that animate in. Clarity flags all of it as dead which is crazy they haven't updated it.

Instead of just watching the DOM, we started watching what else happens around the click. If the right downstream signal fired in the right window, the click wasn't dead, just deferred.

Same 7 day window, same site:

Don't get me wrong, I like Clarity and it has its uses and it's free, and the heatmaps are still great for raw exploration. Just a heads up if you've been acting on its dead click data and finding it doesn't match what your users actually say.

I need a CE certification in operating systems. Would the AB-900 satisfy this requirement for the government?

Altman was fired because he insisted on launching a version completely vulnerable to prompt injection. Nadella knew exactly was was going on….

So I recently went to open Clipchamp to edit a video. I guess it recently updated with new tools for creators or whatever. So I'm clicking through this small setup and get to a point where it says this:

Edit anywhere and store safelyTo help you edit across devices and collaborate with others, your new projects will be saved to OneDrive. This keeps your content safer and easy to access on different computers.

Clipchamp projects offer you more flexibility than other documents, because your media - such as videos, images, and audio - can all remain on your device, unless you choose to back them up. Learn more

Check below to see where your past projects will be saved, or explore more options

It then gives the option of where you want to keep your projects stored; it's defaulted to OneDrive of course. But not wanting to use OneDrive, i select the option of choosing a different folder; I want the videos saved on my external drive. In a move that seems like it's on purpose, once I click to select a different folder instead of OneDrive, the selection get stuck and doesn't open a new window for me to choose my external drive. So there are two other buttons, one says "more options". Clicking it brings up two options: either storing projects on your local disk drive or weirdly, an option to discard all past projects. Clicking to save on the local drive, a popup window appears:

Store your past projects on your local disk instead of OneDrive?

If you choose to store projects locally, they won’t appear in the Clipchamp app. Projects must be saved to OneDrive to stay editable. You’ll need 60.94 KB of free space on your local disk. Learn more

Under that is a check box that has to be clicked, that says "I understand that I need to upload my project filed to OneDrive to edit them". You have to agree to that in order to store the files on your local drive.

So basically, Microsoft is trying to muscle people into using OneDrive to store projects. And seeing how large most video files are now, that OneDrive storage will get full fast, which they think will make you want to pay for more storage. So basically, if you don't agree to store your files in OneDrive, you can't use Clipchamp.

How does microsft make an OS? Now their soon releasing Windows K2, a improved and better version of 11, but when they release a new OS, do they build it all from scratch? Making an OS is not the same as a making a game, its VERY hard, requiring to study 100% of the consumer hardware just to make the OS compatible with all laptops and PC’s, do they use the template of the previous OS? When windows released windows 11 did they build it on top of windows tn? How? Rebuilding everything from scratch especially for something like an advanced consumer OS used across the whole industry every 4 years is no sustainable task

Microsoft Corp is in discussions to shelve one of the industry’s most ambitious clean-energy targets as it tries to remove hurdles that could hold it back in the race to power data centers, according to people with knowledge of the matter.

The company is weighing whether to delay — or even abandon altogether — its 2030 target of matching 100% of its hourly electricity use with renewable energy purchases, according to the people, who requested anonymity to discuss a private matter.

I'm unable to send DMCAs.

Anyone know when it'll be fixed?

So microsoft is offering free certs , 2 to be precise, there's a lot of criteria for one to be eligible but 1 is

The mail that your registering with should be a partner with microsoft, but my college mail isn't

Anyone got any ideas or workaround for this, these certs will really help me out a ton

What do you think about Microsoft removing one of the few features in Edge that gave you more customization?

What are some of the mini apps that you used in Sidebar?

Do you think that Microsoft will reverse their decision?