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Jan 4, 2011
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From inside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field: Why publish documents in PDF?

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A few years ago, the Windows 7 team developed a document to introduce technology writers to the features of Windows 7. The document was released in PDF format, which created quite a stir among certain people trapped inside the Redmond Reality Distortion Field, who indignantly complained, Why are we releasing this document in PDF format?...

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Jan 3, 2011
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Begin feeling

Raymond Chen
Raymond Chen

A few years ago, the gas station near Microsoft's main campus (the one which had been run by my colleague in a previous stage of his career) appeared to have suffered some problems with the LCD unit on one of its pumps. Instead of "Please insert card", it said "@leace incebd cabd". As a geek, I quickly determined that bit 4 got wiped out in the A...

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