{"id":103371,"date":"2020-01-28T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2020-01-28T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/?p=103371"},"modified":"2020-01-28T16:24:27","modified_gmt":"2020-01-29T00:24:27","slug":"20200128-00","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20200128-00\/?p=103371","title":{"rendered":"How do you pronounce WinDbg?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The debugger that comes with Debugging Tools for Windows goes by the name <a href=\"https:\/\/docs.microsoft.com\/en-us\/windows-hardware\/drivers\/debugger\/debugger-download-tools\">WinDbg<\/a>, short for <i>Windows Debugger<\/i>, and generally pronounced <i>win-debug<\/i> or <i>win-dee-bee-gee<\/i>. It&#8217;s part of a suite of lightweight debuggers, along with <code>ntsd<\/code> (short for <i>NT Symbolic Debugger<\/i>) and <code>cdb<\/code> (<i>Console Debugger<\/i>), which are all based on the same debugging engine, creatively named <code>DbgEng<\/code>.<\/p>\n<p>However, the question was how <i>I<\/i> pronounce it, and I pronounce it the same way as many other old-timers: We call it <i>windbag<\/i>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just a lot of hot air.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1069,"featured_media":111744,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2],"class_list":["post-103371","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-history"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>Just a lot of hot air.<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103371","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1069"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=103371"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/103371\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/111744"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=103371"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=103371"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=103371"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}