Jen Gentleman

@jenmsft.bsky.social

I work on the Windows engineering team at Microsoft and help with feedback for Start menu, Settings, taskbar, input + more You can find me on most of the other social media apps including Twitter and reddit with the same account name @jenmsft

A random selection of cheese, prosciutto, crackers, olive bread and olive oil with vinegar

A stick figure raises his hand to object, then closes his mouth

Staring down at a bowl of broccoli florets

A selfie of me standing in front of a mirror in my new dress. It's a long summer dress with turquoise strips (horizontal at the very top, vertical going down the A line, and bands of polka dots). I'm smiling with one hand in a pocket. Someone might comment on that my mirror is a replica of an old version of MS Paint

The Windows XP Bliss wallpaper (green hills, cloudy blue skies), with 1 addition - a yellow brick road leading to the emerald city (from wizard of oz)

From the IT subreddit. They say "the user kept kicking off their PC". Below, a photo of a small Tupperware container which has been taped over where the computer has been plugged into the wall

Holding a bottle of joto yuzu sake at the store, on a shelf with a ton of bottles of it

My cat Biscuit, starting back from his position on the top of a cat tree. Biscuit is very large with a mix of beige and brown colours, and is curled up in such a way that he sort of just looks like a big pile of fur, starring judgingly at you

Holding up earrings - they have little yellow duckies on them

It's got a bunch of tiny rainbows drawn all over it with varying color patterns

A captcha which I have apparently failed, which says "select all images with a bus". I selected 2 of 9 random street scenes. It seems to think there are more.

My cat Biscuit looking at me from where he is cuddled next to me under the blanket

Holding up a box of said milk chocolate tea cakes

My hand going "What is this??" gesturing towards two seemingly unnamed metal cylinders stuck in the wall of the shower

Holding up a cheesecake croissant square pastry thing

A cat tail pokes suspiciously out from a pile of blue blanket with white text all over it. Is that blanket... a blue screen?

A post on the baking subreddit saying "Made tiramisu using yogurt. Guess what?"

A photo of the tiramisu - it looks sort of normal, but the post continues

"it tastes awful - don't do it guys"

Holding up a waffle cone of salted caramel ice cream to the sun. Better eat it fast so it doesn't melt

A man grinning / smiling and saying "So you're telling me there's a chance"

It's the default Windows 11 Bloom wallpaper (a bunch of swishy blue folds, loosely resembling a flower or bush), flipped upside down so that it appears to hang from the ceiling

A 4 panel They Can Talk comic, comparing sailfish and a box fish. If you're not familiar with the two, the sailfish has a slim long grey body with a fin on top and long pointy nose. The box fish is, well... box shaped, yellow and polka dotted. "With its streamlined body, the sailfish can swim at speeds up to 70 miles per hour - it's the fastest fish in the sea", the comic says, now turning to the box fish. "The box fish", it continues, the box fish turning to look you straight in the eye, deer in headlights, "is not".

A selfie of me looking into my phone from the other side of my MS Paint mirror. I'm smiling - the shirt I'm wearing shows a VHS tap, floppy disk and cassette tape, with the text "never forget" (backwards as it's in the mirror)

My cat Basil, belly up on the bed, looking with one eye into the camera. His belly seems so inviting

Anakin and Padme talking to each other. "It's not working", he says. She smiles at him and replies saying "You're going to share details about what exactly you're seeing and mean when you say it's not working, right?". He looks back at her intensely, not saying anything. She starts to lose her smile, and repeats, hesitatingly now "You're going to share details about what exactly you're seeing and mean when you say it's not working... right?"

A closeut photo of my legs standing outside wearing knee high rainbow socks

A post from the Peter Explains the Joke subreddit (where people ask for help understanding memes). It's a picture of Taylor Swift, with the text "Didn't know Taylor Swift was Canadian". The picture of here seems to be behind some bars so her mouth looks cut in half top and bottom as she sings. It looks like how Canadians are portrayed in south park

Bilbo Baggins considering to himself. "Why shouldn't I. Why shouldn't I just eat a pile of cheese for dinner?"

A post on the tech support subreddit saying:

Routing 2 audio devices with different audio outputs?

Sorry for the confusing title. want to have my computer connected to a tv in my room and have it play a different audio than the audio that comes through my headphones. Is this possible?

The daily struggle (meme template). A man stands, sweating as he needs to pick between two buttons. One says "spend your day off doing all the chores you've been putting off". The other says "Binge watch TV and play games"

My cat Basil curled up against me on the couch, looking up at me

Blocking my cat Basil from being able to eat my prosciutto

Scarlett Johansson looking towards the camera and then smiling with her mouth open as if to express surprised delight

Two boxes of pizza - a round butter chicken pizza and a Detroit (?) style square pepperoni pizza. Not shown, a hot honey to drizzle on the pepperoni. Mmmm

A post on the today I learned subreddit, saying today I learned a mouse can be thrown from an airplane usually survive

Holding up a glass / crystal statue which says it's a greatness award to Jennifer on Windows / WXP for Product Excellence

A photo of my shadow making a peace sign in front of a full rainbow off a cliffside

An underwater scene of a wrecked ship with fish everywhere

Holding up a tiny little diorama room made out of a walnut shell - there's a little fireplace and a window with big curtains and a cozy couch

A screenshot of the taskbar on the left side of the screen

A man and a woman talking at a book store. I like good drivers, the man says. Me too, replies the woman. Captioned on the man (someone who has a car), and the woman (someone who works in tech)

A vibrant pink 8 pointed flower - I don't know what type of flower it is

A photo of me smiling with my very large cat biscuit curled up next to my shoulder in bed

Out at karaoke, singing the lyrics to code monkey (his code not functional or elegant but his output stink)

$Screenshot from the linked blog, saying: We’ve made several updates to improve reliability, readability, and overall usability in File Explorer: Address Bar improvements The address bar now supports paths containing double backslashes and quotation marks (for example, C:\Users\user or "C:\Users\user"), improving compatibility with a wider range of inputs. Improved reliability of the Address Bar suggestion dropdown so it now consistently closes after an item is selected. More readable file size formatting File sizes in the Details view now display using appropriate units (KB, MB, GB) instead of KB-only, making them easier to understand at a glance. Refinements to the rename experience Fixed an issue where text would be repeatedly selected while renaming items in folder views. Fixed an issue where updated names (case-only changes) were not immediately reflected in folder views across local and cloud storage. Improved keyboard navigation of File Explorer context menu in flyouts.$