The Old New Thing

Contradictory feedback from my 2005 PDC talk

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

Raymond Chen

I was looking through the feedback from my 2005 PDC talk, and I noticed an interesting contradiction. The written feedback indicated that the first half of my talk (wherein I talked about memory management and "paying your taxes") was more favorably-received than the second half (on user interface issues). On the other hand, nearly all of the...

Coming to the completely opposite conclusion on Windows versions

September 22, 2005 Sep 22, 2005 09/22/05

Raymond Chen

When I discussed why there is no all-encompassing superset version of Windows, people somehow interpreted this as an explanation of why there are so many versions of Windows Vista. I guess these people never even made it past the title of the article, which argues for fewer Windows versions, not more! Besides, the article talked about ...