Although the function WinMain is documented in the Platform SDK, it’s not really part of the platform. Rather, WinMain is the conventional name for the user-provided entry point to a Windows program.
The real entry point is in the C runtime library, which initializes the runtime, runs global constructors, and then calls your WinMain function (or wWinMain if you prefer a Unicode entry point).
Raymond has been involved in the evolution of Windows for more than 30 years. In 2003, he began a Web site known as The Old New Thing which has grown in popularity far beyond his wildest imagination, a development which still gives him the heebie-jeebies. The Web site spawned a book, coincidentally also titled The Old New Thing (Addison Wesley 2007). He occasionally appears on the Windows Dev Docs Twitter account to tell stories which convey no useful information.
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