The Old New Thing

September 13, 2005 - The Old New Thing

Sorry I missed you all this morning

September 13, 2005 Sep 13, 2005 09/13/05
Raymond Chen
Sorry to all you PDCers who stopped by the Fundamentals Lounge to see me. The scheduling software that the PDC organizers cooked up is, um, "suboptimal" and listed me for Tuesday 11.30a–2.30p instead of 2.30p–5.30p. During the early afternoon shift, I was actually in the Hands-On Lab. But I'll be in the Lounge on Thursday after my ...

Annoying renditions of the songs of Elvis

September 13, 2005 Sep 13, 2005 09/13/05
Raymond Chen
Jim Nayder of The Annoying Music Show pops by NPR studios every so often—hey, guys, if you changed the locks, this might stop him—whereupon he tortures the general public with musical offenses that should be outlawed by the Geneva Conventions. Most recently, he offered a series of reinterpretations of the works of Elvis Presley. ...

Why is there no all-encompassing superset version of Windows?

September 13, 2005 Sep 13, 2005 09/13/05
Raymond Chen
Sometimes, I am asked why there is no single version of Windows that contains everything. Instead, as you move up the ladder, say, from Windows XP Professional to Windows Server 2003, you gain server features and lose workstation features. Why lose features when you add others? Because it turns out no actual customer wants to keep ...