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Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by stevefan1999 1 day ago | past | discuss
Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by ibobev 5 days ago | past | discuss
Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by ibobev 6 days ago | past | discuss
Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by LorenDB 6 days ago | past | discuss
A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by ingve 19 days ago | past
How did MS-DOS decide on two seconds to keep the floppy disk cache valid? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
16 points by paulmooreparks 20 days ago | past
Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
9 points by ibobev 23 days ago | past
Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
29 points by ibobev 31 days ago | past | 9 comments
Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by ibobev 31 days ago | past
Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 37 days ago | past
What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 38 days ago | past
How did Windows 95 get permission to put Weezer video 'Buddy Holly' on the CD? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
201 points by ingve 40 days ago | past | 161 comments
Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ryukoposting 47 days ago | past | 1 comment
Why did I lose the data even though I called Safe­Array­Add­Ref? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 51 days ago | past
How can I retain access to the data in a SAFEARRAY after my method returns? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 51 days ago | past
C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by firesteelrain 58 days ago | past
Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
15 points by todsacerdoti 62 days ago | past
Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 62 days ago | past
Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 62 days ago | past
When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by zdw 66 days ago | past
Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant mem (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by ibobev 75 days ago | past | 1 comment
Swapping two blocks of memory that reside inside a larger block, in constant (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by ibobev 76 days ago | past
Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by mooreds 77 days ago | past
Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
48 points by paulmooreparks 80 days ago | past | 26 comments
Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ingve 80 days ago | past
How can I detect that the system is running low on memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
5 points by ibobev 82 days ago | past
Can I throw a C++ exception from a structured exception? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
64 points by birdculture 84 days ago | past | 15 comments
C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
149 points by ibobev 85 days ago | past | 143 comments
Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by signa11 85 days ago | past
Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
310 points by montalbano 85 days ago | past | 124 comments

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