{"id":10263,"date":"2011-07-04T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2011\/07\/04\/a-handful-of-trips-through-the-time-machine\/"},"modified":"2011-07-04T07:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-07-04T07:00:00","slug":"a-handful-of-trips-through-the-time-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20110704-00\/?p=10263","title":{"rendered":"A handful of trips through the time machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> A few trips through the time machine: <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/software\/operating-systems\/24-years-of-windows-package-design-643034\">     24 years of Windows package design<\/a>. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.techradar.com\/news\/software\/operating-systems\/windows-retrospective-boot-screens-through-the-ages-642928\">     Boot screens through the ages<\/a> <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/www.istartedsomething.com\/20110325\/microsofts-future-of-productivity-showcases-19-years-evolution-information-technology\/\">     Microsoft producivity applications through the decades<\/a>.     (Warning: Marketing video.)     Many of the locations in the first part of     that video are from Microsoft&#8217;s main campus.     The ones I recognized are     the brown building that opens the video,     the cubicle at 0:12 (spot the anachronism),     the office at 0:20,     the bookshelf at 0:21,     the hallway at 0:28,     the mailroom at 0:29,     and     the new bookshelf at 0:41.     But once he makes it to IT Director,     they move to some fancy-dancy building,     which Long Zheng identifies as the City Center Plaza building     in Bellevue. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/rasteri.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/chain-of-fools-upgrading-through-every.html\">     Upgrading through every version of Windows<\/a>     starting from MS-DOS&nbsp;5.0. <\/li>\n<li>     <a href=\"http:\/\/rasteri.blogspot.com\/2011\/03\/we-are-ie-comparing-every-version-of.html\">     Comparing every version of Internet Explorer<\/a>. <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p> In the Internet Explorer time machine video, I was struck by the remark, &#8220;Appearance-wise, very little had changed [in Internet Explorer 4] since IE3. Not much changed in terms of functionality, either.&#8221; In fact, Internet Explorer&nbsp;4 was probably the most significant revision of Internet Explorer in its history, because that&#8217;s the version that completely replaced the old layout engine with a new one code-named <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Trident_(layout_engine)\"> Trident<\/a>, the layout engine that continues to power Internet Explorer today. Another case of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.msdn.com\/b\/oldnewthing\/archive\/2004\/05\/25\/141253.aspx\">When you change the insides, nobody notices<\/a>.&#8221; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A few trips through the time machine: 24 years of Windows package design. Boot screens through the ages Microsoft producivity applications through the decades. (Warning: Marketing video.) Many of the locations in the first part of that video are from Microsoft&#8217;s main campus. 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