{"id":41443,"date":"2003-12-18T10:47:00","date_gmt":"2003-12-18T10:47:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.msdn.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/2003\/12\/18\/how-to-void-your-warranty\/"},"modified":"2003-12-18T10:47:00","modified_gmt":"2003-12-18T10:47:00","slug":"how-to-void-your-warranty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/20031218-00\/?p=41443","title":{"rendered":"How to void your warranty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>MSDN just published an article <a href=\"http:\/\/msdn.microsoft.com\/msdnmag\/issues\/03\/12\/CriticalSections\/\">telling people that it&#8217;s okay to use reserved fields in an internal structure<\/a>. Anybody who does this has just voided their warranty. Please put a &#8220;This program has a  high likelihood of crashing after you install the next Service Pack or upgrade your OS&#8221; in your license agreement.<\/p>\n<p>And you wonder why app compat is so hard.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MSDN just published an article telling people that it&#8217;s okay to use reserved fields in an internal structure. Anybody who does this has just voided their warranty. Please put a &#8220;This program has a high likelihood of crashing after you install the next Service Pack or upgrade your OS&#8221; in your license agreement. And you [&hellip;]<\/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":[25],"class_list":["post-41443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-oldnewthing","tag-code"],"acf":[],"blog_post_summary":"<p>MSDN just published an article telling people that it&#8217;s okay to use reserved fields in an internal structure. Anybody who does this has just voided their warranty. Please put a &#8220;This program has a high likelihood of crashing after you install the next Service Pack or upgrade your OS&#8221; in your license agreement. And you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443","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=41443"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41443\/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=41443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/devblogs.microsoft.com\/oldnewthing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}