DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded(devblogs.microsoft.com)

111 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 39 comments

Windows brings out the Rorschach test in everyone (2003)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

331 points by luu 2 months ago | 123 comments

A 2003 Old New Thing post by Raymond Chen recounting how the Windows 95 box's anti-piracy hologram of a baby drew offended reactions despite seeming harmless.

Subroutine calls in the ancient world, before computers had stacks or heaps(devblogs.microsoft.com)

429 points by signa11 2 years ago | 195 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.

A popular but wrong way to convert a string to uppercase or lowercase(devblogs.microsoft.com)

180 points by ingve 2 years ago | 191 comments

Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

22 points by rbanffy 10 months ago | 7 comments

If you're just going to sit there doing nothing, at least do nothing correctly(devblogs.microsoft.com)

364 points by AndrewDucker 2 years ago | 271 comments

Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post on how to implement no-op API stubs correctly, using Windows printing APIs on Xbox as an example.