10 stories tagged the-old-new-thing, 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.
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.
349 points by luu | 122 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing post explaining how the passive USB-to-PS/2 adapter bundled with Microsoft mice worked, with the mouse handling both protocols.
429 points by signa11 | 195 comments
Raymond Chen's The Old New Thing blog post explaining how early computers performed subroutine calls before they had stacks or heaps.
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.