Dec 3, 2019
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The automotive emergency kit is not a toy
Please use it only for emergencies.
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Nov 19, 2019
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The Magical Excel 97 Far East Language Build Screwdriver™
For your magical build needs.
Nov 5, 2019
4
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The legend of Steve Ballmer’s rental car, the most diligent employee in the world
What a hardworking new employee that must be.
Nov 4, 2019
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What happened if you tried to access a network file bigger than 2GB from MS-DOS?
What a strange world you live in.
Oct 31, 2019
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For one internal build, Windows 95 contained an evil message
Another prank from the user interface team.
Oct 10, 2019
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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?
Anywhere it's possible to put a pointer, somebody will try to put a pointer.
Oct 8, 2019
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Auctioning off the privilege of initiating the destruction of the Microsoft old campus
Emerging victorious in the bidding war.
Oct 1, 2019
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Reminiscences on 5.25″ floppy drives of the early 1980’s
Because you may have forgotten, or perhaps never knew.
Sep 30, 2019
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Where did DirectX code names come from?
From too much pizza.
Sep 24, 2019
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How did MS-DOS decide that two seconds was the amount of time to keep the floppy disk cache valid?
A stopwatch and a race against time.