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How did Windows 95 decide that a setup program ran? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 58 points by soheilpro 20 days ago | past | 12 comments The evolution of window and class extra bytes in Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by Stratoscope 27 days ago | past The DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded 2 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by supermatou 27 days ago | past Stop cherry-picking, start merging (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ankitg12 29 days ago | past DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 150 points by ibobev 30 days ago | past | 45 comments Cancellation of Windows Runtime activities is asynchronous (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 30 days ago | past The DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by supermatou 32 days ago | past Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 32 days ago | past Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by AndrewDucker 33 days ago | past In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 607 points by saikatsg 34 days ago | past | 122 comments In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 8 points by signa11 35 days ago | past In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 97 points by tyoma 35 days ago | past | 1 comment Why doesn't Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I'm impersonating? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 37 days ago | past What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 37 days ago | past Why doesn't Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I'm impersonating? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 38 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 39 days ago | past Why is address space allocation granularity 64KB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by tosh 40 days ago | past Retrofitting the WM_COPY­DATA message onto Windows 3.1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ibobev 40 days ago | past Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 130 points by tosh 42 days ago | past | 36 comments The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 504 points by paulmooreparks 42 days ago | past | 173 comments How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 42 days ago | past Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 8 points by ibobev 45 days ago | past Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 45 days ago | past C++: The Programming Language Cover Raises Unanswered Questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by birdculture 51 days ago | past The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 156 points by paulmooreparks 52 days ago | past | 51 comments A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 41 points by soheilpro 54 days ago | past | 18 comments Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 55 days ago | past The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 41 points by paulmooreparks 56 days ago | past | 54 comments What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by vintagedave 65 days ago | past What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 58 points by supermatou 68 days ago | past | 16 comments More

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