What were the MS-DOS programs that the moricons.dll icons were intended for?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

289 points by rbanffy 1 year ago | 150 comments

What is a hard error, and what makes it harder than an easy error?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

77 points by luu 2 years ago | 36 comments

A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts(devblogs.microsoft.com)

158 points by tybulewicz 1 month ago | 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.

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.

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

111 points by ibobev 4 months ago | 39 comments

How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base?(devblogs.microsoft.com)

128 points by ayi 11 months ago | 73 comments