The Old New Thing

PC Magazine interviews “the team behind Windows” on its twentieth birthday

October 26, 2005 Oct 26, 2005 10/26/05

Raymond Chen

PC Magazine interviewed "the team behind Windows" in commemoration of Windows' twentieth birthday. The article's author talked with Bill Gates, Charles Simonyi, Jeff Raikes, Ray Ozzie (huh? He didn't even work at Microsoft until April 2005! How could he have been part of "the team behind Windows"?), Jim Allchin, Brad Silverberg, David Cole, ...

When programs assume that the system will never change, episode 1

October 26, 2005 Oct 26, 2005 10/26/05

Raymond Chen

An example, all too frequent, of ways programs assume that the user interface will never change is reaching into system binaries and sucking out undocumented resources. In the shell, we have fallen into the reluctant position of carrying "dead" icons around for the benefit of programs that assumed that they would always be available. However, ...