The legend of Steve Ballmer’s rental car, the most diligent employee in the world

Raymond ChenNovember 5, 2019Nov 5, 201911/5/19

What a hardworking new employee that must be.

What happened if you tried to access a network file bigger than 2GB from MS-DOS?

Raymond ChenNovember 4, 2019Nov 4, 201911/4/19

What a strange world you live in.

For one internal build, Windows 95 contained an evil message

Raymond ChenOctober 31, 2019Oct 31, 201910/31/19

Another prank from the user interface team.

Why are timer IDs and dialog control IDs 64-bit values on 64-bit Windows? Did you really expect people to create more than 4 billion timers or dialog controls?

Raymond ChenOctober 10, 2019Oct 10, 201910/10/19

Anywhere it's possible to put a pointer, somebody will try to put a pointer.

Auctioning off the privilege of initiating the destruction of the Microsoft old campus

Raymond ChenOctober 8, 2019Oct 8, 201910/8/19

Emerging victorious in the bidding war.

Reminiscences on 5.25″ floppy drives of the early 1980’s

Raymond ChenOctober 1, 2019Oct 1, 201910/1/19

Because you may have forgotten, or perhaps never knew.

Where did DirectX code names come from?

Raymond ChenSeptember 30, 2019Sep 30, 201909/30/19

From too much pizza.

How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid?

Raymond ChenSeptember 24, 2019Sep 24, 201909/24/19

A stopwatch and a race against time.

The sad history of the MFC TRY/CATCH macros

Raymond ChenSeptember 11, 2019Sep 11, 201909/11/19

Because standard C++ exception handling didn't exist yet.

Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”

Raymond ChenSeptember 10, 2019Sep 10, 201909/10/19

An unsuccessful play for a site visit.