The Old New Thing

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Raymond Chen

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Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.

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Ye shall knowe them by their frutes. Do men gaddre grapes of thornes? or figges of bryres? Matthew 7:16 TYN

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Who wrote the text for the Ctrl+Alt+Del dialog in Windows 3.1? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables, and which one is right? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Why is there a screen that says “It is now safe to turn off your computer”? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Why did Windows 95 setup use three operating systems? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Why did Windows 7, for a few months, log on slower if you have a solid color background? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
A snappy answer when asked about dressing casually at IBM (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Were there any Windows 3.1 programs that were so incompatible with Windows 95 that there was no point trying to patch them? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Why was there a red telephone at every receptionist desk? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
Mapping the page tables into memory via the page tables (devblogs.microsoft.com)
A dispute over the TAB key highlights a mismatch between Microsoft and IBM organizational structures (devblogs.microsoft.com)

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