Jul 17, 2015
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What did the Ignore button do in Windows 3.1 when an application encountered a general protection fault?
Muddling through.
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Jul 14, 2015
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Hazy memories of the Windows 95 ship party
How'd that happen?
Jul 3, 2015
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Why does the BackupWrite function take a pointer to a modifiable buffer when it shouldn’t be modifying the buffer?
An artifact of an earlier time.
Jun 25, 2015
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Where is the full version of the music that plays when you start Windows 98 for the first time?
There isn't one.
Jun 19, 2015
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Why does the class name for Explorer change depending on whether you open it with /e?
Compatibility, of course.
May 7, 2015
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Hidden message in a T-shirt, it's been done before
While everybody is trying to figure out the hidden message in Joe Belfiore's T-shirt,¹ I figure I'd give you an easier puzzle. Here is the pattern of 0's and 1's printed on the T-shirt handed given out at the Windows 8 kick-off meeting. Because you don't have a project until you have a T-shirt. The actual shirt clipped many of the digi...
Apr 23, 2015
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How did the scopes for the CryptProtectMemory function end up in a strange order?
Incremental functionality.
Apr 21, 2015
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What was the starting point for the Panther Win32 kernel?
That one started from Windows NT.
Apr 17, 2015
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Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right?
Parallel evolution.
Apr 16, 2015
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Why did the original code for FIND.COM use lop as a label instead of loop?
An old puzzle.