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A customer reported that they had a problem with a particular function added in Windows 7. The tricky bit was that the function was used only on very high-end hardware, not the sort of thing your average developer has lying around. The customer reported that the function always failed with error 122 () even though the buffer seems perfectl...

A customer reported that they had gone to the Screen Saver control panel, selected a screen saver that they had recently downloaded, then hit the Test button to see what it looked like. He was pleased with what he saw, and he went home, leaving the screen saver running. When he returned the following morning, he found that the screen saver had cra...

Inside Microsoft, there was an employee photography contest to provide images to be included in Windows 7, either in one of the pre-release versions or in the final product. Each subsidiary selected the photos to be included in their localized version of Windows, choosing images which best reflect that region's culture, history, and natural...