{"id":982312,"date":"2025-12-27T11:06:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:36:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=982312"},"modified":"2025-12-27T11:06:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-27T05:36:45","slug":"microsoft-engineer-clarifies-linkedin-post-after-it-goes-viral-and-causes-outrage-and-how-in-2023-nsa-made-similar-recommendation-for-software-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2025\/12\/27\/microsoft-engineer-clarifies-linkedin-post-after-it-goes-viral-and-causes-outrage-and-how-in-2023-nsa-made-similar-recommendation-for-software-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Microsoft engineer &#8216;clarifies&#8217; LinkedIn post after it goes viral and causes outrage; and how in 2023 NSA made &#8216;similar recommendation&#8217; for software companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No, Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust. The clarification comes after a LinkedIn post by a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt went viral and led to an outrage in several circles. This made the company as well as the Microsoft engineer to issue a clarification. The original post from Hunt was a job posting which led to the speculation that Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring.<\/p>\n<p>What Microsoft engineer&#8217;s original original post said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No, Microsoft is not rewriting Windows in Rust. The clarification comes after a LinkedIn post by a Microsoft Distinguished Engineer Galen Hunt went viral and led to an outrage in several circles. This made the company as well as the Microsoft engineer to issue a clarification. The original post from Hunt was a job posting which led to the speculation that Microsoft plans to eliminate all C and C++ code across its major codebases by 2030, replacing it with Rust using AI-assisted, large-scale refactoring. What Microsoft engineer&#8217;s original original post said<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[87,4,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-982312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-times-of-india","category-newspapers","category-the-times-of-india"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=982312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/982312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=982312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=982312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=982312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}