The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation(devblogs.microsoft.com)

465 points by paulmooreparks 4 months ago | 149 comments

Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post recounting how a Windows x86-32 emulator team, using binary translation, patched badly written application code during emulation.

Practical use of the null garbage collector (2018)(devblogs.microsoft.com)

26 points by jasonthorsness 1 year ago | 9 comments

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.

Deciphering C++ compiler errors: Nonsensical errors from a function declaration(devblogs.microsoft.com)

28 points by signa11 1 year ago | 15 comments

Why is the x86 undefined instruction called ud2? Why 2?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

245 points by ibobev 1 month ago | 57 comments