The Old New Thing
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Contradictory feedback from my 2005 PDC talk
I was looking through the feedback from my 2005 PDC talk, and I noticed an interesting contradiction. The written feedback indicated that the first half of my ...
Coming to the completely opposite conclusion on Windows versions
When I discussed why there is no all-encompassing superset version of Windows, people somehow interpreted this as an explanation of why there are so many ...
Black(out) humor at the 2005 PDC
Trying to make light (get it? light?) of the situation, there were quite a few jokes about the power outage at the PDC. The Hands-On Lab was being set up at ...
Giving fair warning before plugging in your computer
That colleague who gave me the AOL CD that came with a big-iron server later received a prototype Itanium computer for testing purposes. The early Itaniums ...
Things to do at Microsoft when the power goes out
When the power goes out, the first thing you notice is how quiet everything becomes. The hum of the computers in the building stops. You hear... nothing. Bask...
Please disconnect all cell phones, signal watches, and pagers
Last Saturday night, a group of us (including butt photographer Wendy) attended a performance of the Seattle Symphony consisting of the world premiere of the...
Corrections to the answers I gave at the end of my PDC talk
I guess one advantage of having a web site is that I can publish errata. I haven't watched the Channel9 video (and probably never will; it's hard to watch ...
Why doesn’t Microsoft give every employee a UPS?
One reaction to my story about the oldest computer at Microsoft still doing useful work was shock (shock!) that Microsoft suffers from power outages. In the ...
Fiddling with the fonts, part 2: Keeping the English font small
We concluded last time that we wanted the custom large font to apply only to the columns containing Chinese characters and leave the original font in place for...