First screen, captured .
331 points by luu | 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.
338 points by soheilpro | 165 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.
158 points by tybulewicz | 101 comments
A Raymond Chen post on The Old New Thing blog recounting the history of Windows scroll bar operations and shortcuts, including the Windows 7 right-click menu.
338 points by soheilpro | 165 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how Windows XP picked a new user's initial account picture from the default pictures directory.
475 points by zdw | 266 comments
A post on Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog explaining why Windows 7 logons were slower when a solid color desktop background was set.
457 points by lemper | 209 comments
A blog post by jyn, a compiler engineer, arguing that programming isn't a competition and that they write about technical topics simply for fun.
364 points by AndrewDucker | 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.
287 points by luispa | 120 comments
A security researcher's blog post describing a Microsoft internal analytics service flaw where unchecked token signatures allowed admin access to query 17.3 trillion records.
459 points by lycopodiopsida | 598 comments
Personal blog post arguing that nobody can write correct C or C++ because nearly all code triggers undefined behavior, and that the languages are outdated.