Oct 17, 2017
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When a stopgap solution becomes an undocumented feature some people rely on
It was never meant to be long for this world.
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Oct 9, 2017
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Why does NTVDM create empty IO.SYS and MSDOS.SYS files?
Compatibility, of course.
Oct 3, 2017
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Alas, Microsoft Building 109 Conference Room A is no more
Another code word bites the dust.
Sep 26, 2017
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Who implemented the Windows NT blue screen of death?
My colleague John Vert.
Sep 1, 2017
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I guess I may as well confess that I wrote the Itanium information in the Debugging Tools for Windows package
The story of how I ended up being the guy who understands all these processors.
Aug 24, 2017
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Yes, that was a horrifically awkward video, but it wasn’t the Windows 95 launch
Some sort of sales event, probably.
May 18, 2017
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Why is the !locks command called !locks even though it debugs only critical sections?
Because those were the only kind of locks, back in the day.
May 9, 2017
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The early Windows phone devices were liquid-cooled, sort of
Soda is a liquid, right?
Apr 18, 2017
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That time a customer reported an error in the map used by Flight Simulator
But whose map is right?
Mar 30, 2017
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The gradual erosion of the SEM_NOOPENFILEERRORBOX error mode
It does less and less, until it basically does nothing.