9 stories tagged raymond-chen, newest first.
55 points by ibobev | 25 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining what happens when someone tries to hot-patch a Windows function that has already been hot-patched.
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.
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.
537 points by saikatsg | 94 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post remembering Tony Krueger, longtime Microsoft Word developer credited with the red and green squiggle underlines.
465 points by paulmooreparks | 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.
366 points by birdculture | 64 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing post explaining why a screenshot of a video pasted into Paint on old Windows appeared to keep playing the video.
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.
833 points by mycall | 484 comments
Raymond Chen's Old New Thing blog post arguing that overly aggressive uninstallers end up behaving like malware on Windows.