The Old New Thing

The way the function treats quotation marks and backslashes has raised eyebrows at times. Let's look at the problem space, and then see what algorithm would ...

The function does some basic command line parsing. A customer reported that it was producing strange results when you passed an empty string as the first ...

A while back, I wrote on the impact of hardworking employees on their less diligent colleagues. Slate uncovered a study that demonstrated the reverse effect: ...

Windows UNC notation permits you to use a raw IPv4 address in dotted notation as a server name: For example, will show you the shared resources on the computer...

I introduced this Microspeak last year as part of a general entry about management-speak, but I'm giving it its own entry because it deserves some attention on...

As a thank-you for presenting at TechReady11, the conference organizers gave me (and presumably the other speakers) a portable speaker with the Windows logo ...

Yuhong Bao asked, via the Suggestion Box, "Why not implement delay-loading by having a flag in the import entry specifying that Windows should mimic the Windows...

Consider a system where you have a lot of secured objects, and suppose further that checking whether a user has access to an object is a slow operation. This is...

Some time ago, Larry Osterman discussed the severe performance consequences of flushing the registry, which is a specific case of the more general performance...