Microsoft Azure CTO and AI Ported ZoomIt to macOS in Two Days
Windows has many legacy tools that still get the job done, and one of my personal favorites is ZoomIt, a lightweight screen zooming, recording, and annotation tool. While you’ve got modern apps like Snipping Tool to record your screen, ZoomIt had its own audience, and those were mostly technicians using it to prepare presentations. Russinovich originally created it because he needed a better way to explain Windows to a room full of people.
- ▪Windows has many legacy tools that still get the job done, and one of my personal favorites is ZoomIt, a lightweight screen zooming, recording, and annotation tool.
- ▪While you’ve got modern apps like Snipping Tool to record your screen, ZoomIt had its own audience, and those were mostly technicians using it to prepare presentations.
- ▪Russinovich originally created it because he needed a better way to explain Windows to a room full of people.
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Home Microsoft Microsoft Microsoft Azure CTO used AI to port 20-year-old Windows tool to macOS in two days: “I was flabbergasted” By Mayank Parmar - September 17, 2026 0 Microsoft’s legendary programmer Mark Russinovich, who is currently the CTO of Microsoft Azure, says he used AI to bring ZoomIt, a Windows tool he has maintained for more than 20 years, to macOS in a single weekend. Windows has many legacy tools that still get the job done, and one of my personal favorites is ZoomIt, a lightweight screen zooming, recording, and annotation tool. While you’ve got modern apps like Snipping Tool to record your screen, ZoomIt had its own audience, and those were mostly technicians using it to prepare presentations.
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