Oct 31, 2019
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For one internal build, Windows 95 contained an evil message
Another prank from the user interface team.
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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.
Sep 11, 2019
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The sad history of the MFC TRY/CATCH macros
Because standard C++ exception handling didn't exist yet.
Sep 10, 2019
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Trying to wrangle a site visit to Paul Allen’s superyacht “Octopus”
An unsuccessful play for a site visit.
Aug 30, 2019
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The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++
Getting ahead of the standard, which went a different way.
Aug 28, 2019
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The sad history of Visual Studio’s custom __if_exists keyword
When times were simpler and bytes were precious.