Software Engineer on @Windows Apps (ex-@VisualStudio & @Copilot) at @Microsoft. Author of DevToys & WindowSill. Opinions are my own. 🇫🇷 ➡️ 🇨🇦 ➡️ 🇺🇸

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Joined June 2010
Etienne Baudoux | Software Engineer @Microsoft retweeted
JD Vance’s attack on Microsoft was deeply disingenuous, and Microsoft’s response exposes the fundamental flaw in his argument. Vance compared layoffs with H-1B filings as though every visa petition represented an American worker being replaced. Here is what Microsoft actually said: “Of the approximately 6,000 H-1B visa applications we submitted in the last fiscal year, 80% percent were to extend or change the status of existing Microsoft employees. These were not to hire new people. The remaining filings for new employees were for individuals already legally in the United States who decided to come work for us, and they equal only 1% of our U.S. workforce. They are not new arrivals to our country.” An extension is not a new hire. A visa transfer is not evidence of an American losing a job. And an H-1B petition is not proof of displacement. If you want to investigate actual fraud, investigate it. If you want to protect American workers, protect them. But don’t manipulate immigration statistics to manufacture a scandal. America deserves an immigration debate grounded in facts, not political theater dressed up as arithmetic.
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Etienne Baudoux | Software Engineer @Microsoft retweeted
13 years later and this is still the most accurate documentary ever made about iOS vs. Android
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I love @lmstudio, especially for its privacy. I recently helped a client integrating WindowSill in his company. LM Studio was part of his requirement. Having a single, private, LLM server running on a private network is a top need for some companies who work with super sensitive data. I ensured WindowSill can be deployed easily in such environment. Thanks to WindowSill Pro, you can remotely configure WindowSill on all your client machines so they all use the same LM Studio server you may run internally. And yes, it also work with Ollama. Below is an article describing how end-users can use LM Studio on their personal computers. It's as simple for enterprise customers, except the configuration is done on the online dashboard. 👇 getwindowsill.app/blog/windo…
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Etienne Baudoux | Software Engineer @Microsoft retweeted
高機能ファイラー「Files」v4.2.2、AIコマンドバー「WindowSill」との連携に対応/「Files」で選んでいるアイテムに応じて「WindowSill」が適したツール… forest.watch.impress.co.jp/d…
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Etienne Baudoux | Software Engineer @Microsoft retweeted
Files is now officially integrated with WindowSill, which is outlined in the 4.2.2 release note. We have a plan for better integration of Files with other applications as well. Keep tuned in our Discord server! files.community/blog/posts/v…
Happy Monday! WindowSill now integrates with @directory_opus and Files app! More reading: getwindowsill.app/blog/windo…
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Happy Monday! WindowSill now integrates with @directory_opus and Files app! More reading: getwindowsill.app/blog/windo…
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I just released a big new, FREE feature for WindowSill, the universal toolbar for Windows 11. 🚀 WindowSill will now react your selected files in File Explorer and Files App, and you will be able to perform a ton of actions on files without having to open them, such as: ✅ Extract pages from a PDF, compress it, set or remove a PDF password. ✅Merge or Split PDF files. ✅Convert Word, Excel, PowerPoint, CSV, TSV, TXT, MD, HTML, RTF, PDF files even if you don't have Office / Adobe installed. ✅Change the encoding or line ending of text files. ✅See extra info about a selected ZIP file. ✅Compress, Convert, Resize images ✅Convert videos, including extracting their audio. All this is part of the free tier in my app getwindowsill.app/
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Some of you already know this: I left the Visual Studio team at Microsoft and joined the Windows team recently. Today, I'm please to share my first contributions to the Photos app, currently available in Insider Preview. Some non-exhaustive personal contributions I'm thrilled to share: 1. A modernized Info Panel user interface. 2. An "Additional Information" section that shows all the EXIF metadata of your photo 3. The possibility to rename your file from the title bar. 4. The possibility to save your image as HEIC. Cheers!
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How to Use WindowSill with Microsoft AI Foundry Local for Private AI Writing getwindowsill.app/blog/windo…
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Etienne Baudoux | Software Engineer @Microsoft retweeted
How many browser tabs do you keep bookmarked just to format JSON? Decode a JWT. Generate a UUID. Test a regex. Convert Base64. Check a hash. Preview Markdown. Compare two strings. Count them. I'll wait. @VelerSoftware counted them all — then built DevToys so none of them need to exist anymore. DevToys-app/DevToys — 32,000 GitHub stars, 1,800 forks, MIT licensed. A Swiss Army knife for developers. No internet required. No untrustworthy websites. Just your machine. Here's everything in one offline desktop app: → Converters: JSON to YAML, Date, Number bases → Encoders/Decoders: HTML, URLs, Base64, GZip, JWT, QR Code → Formatters: JSON, SQL, XML — paste and clean instantly → Generators: Hash & Checksum, Lorem Ipsum, Password → Graphics: PNG/JPEG Compressor, Color Blindness Simulator → Testers: JSONPath, RegEx, XML — test patterns without a project → Text Utilities: Markdown Preview, Text Comparer, Analyzer → Smart Detection — copies something to clipboard, DevToys automatically selects the right tool for the data → Extension Manager: 44+ community extensions including JSONSchema Validator, XPath Tester, ULID Generator, UUID Formatter, C# to TypeScript, Msgpack, and more → Windows, macOS, Linux — cross-platform since v2 → Everything runs locally — your data never leaves the machine → MIT licensed — install via winget, Homebrew, or direct download The best developer tool is the one that's already open when you need it. Discovered on OSSphere : ossphere.dev/DevToys-app/Dev… Which browser tab would you close forever if DevToys replaced it? Drop it below 👇 #DevToys #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #Productivity #BuildInPublic #Windows #macOS
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You can now pin clipboard items in WindowSill 😁 getwindowsill.app
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How to Use WindowSill with Ollama for Private AI Writing ➡️ getwindowsill.app/blog/windo…
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NEW in my app WindowSill >> your Outlook / Word format is now preserved! It's right here ➡️ getwindowsill.app
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Just released WindowSill 0.9.24.0! getwindowsill.app/blog/whats… You can now use AI to rewrite a formatted text in Outlook, Word and else (bullet list, tables, images, etc) and replace it with the result of the prompt, without losing the formatting.
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