Oct 27, 2026
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Why don’t we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive?
Hurry up and wait.
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Oct 26, 2026
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Puzzling out why a program doesn’t work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer
Mimicking the operation more accurately.
Oct 20, 2026
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Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides
PowerPoint presentation jargon.
Oct 2, 2026
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Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS?
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it.
Oct 1, 2026
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Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way
Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions.
Sep 30, 2026
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Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86
Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task.
Sep 15, 2026
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Why do Microsoft job levels start in the high 50’s instead of starting at a sane number like 1?
It used to start at 1, but that was the old system.
Sep 14, 2026
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Why didn’t ReadDirectoryChangesW provide a way to correlate the two sides of a rename operation?
Perhaps it wasn't necessary, or perhaps it didn't occur to them that this a problem.
Sep 10, 2026
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Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?
It came after ud0 and ud1.
Sep 1, 2026
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Microspeak: Funded / unfunded
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