| | Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 1 point by ibobev 4 hours ago | past | discuss |
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| | The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by paulmooreparks 15 hours ago | past | discuss |
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| | What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by vintagedave 10 days ago | past | discuss |
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| | What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 58 points by supermatou 13 days ago | past | 16 comments |
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| | The case of the CreateFileMapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 1 point by ibobev 15 days ago | past |
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| | Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 6 points by supermatou 18 days ago | past |
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| | IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 397 points by SeenNotHeard 28 days ago | past | 240 comments |
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| | How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 73 points by ingve 28 days ago | past | 71 comments |
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| | Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 216 points by ankitg12 31 days ago | past | 97 comments |
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| | Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 98 points by aragonite 35 days ago | past | 29 comments |
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| | Another crash caused by uninstaller code injection into Explorer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 2 points by r4um 40 days ago | past |
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| | XOR'ing a register with itself is the idiom for zeroing it out. Why not sub? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 231 points by ingve 41 days ago | past | 216 comments |
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| | Why XOR a register with itself instead of subtracting (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 2 points by LorenDB 42 days ago | past |
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| | How did code handle 24-bit formats with video cards with bank-switched memory? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 2 points by ingve 43 days ago | past |
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| | Hyrum's Law: The hunt for a faster syscall trap (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by signa11 44 days ago | past |
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| | The cover of C++ The Programming Language raises questions not answered by cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by ibobev 46 days ago | past | 1 comment |
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| | Why is a delay between a thread exiting and WaitForSingleObject returning? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 1 point by ibobev 46 days ago | past |
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| | Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 1 point by ibobev 47 days ago | past |
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| | Finding a duplicated item in an array of N integers in the range 1 to N − 1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by birdculture 49 days ago | past |
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| | The cover of "C++: The Programming Language" raises questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by krylon 61 days ago | past | 4 comments |
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| | How to change a dialog box's message loop to do a MsgWaitForMultipleObjects (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 1 point by ibobev 63 days ago | past |
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| | It rather involved being on the other side of this airtight hatchway (2006) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 5 points by JoshTriplett 64 days ago | past | 1 comment |
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| | Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 168 points by michelangelo 65 days ago | past | 100 comments |
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| | Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by supermatou 68 days ago | past |
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| | Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by ibobev 69 days ago | past |
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| | Windows stack limit checking retrospective: ARM64, also known as AArch64 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 2 points by ibobev 70 days ago | past |
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| | Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by stevefan1999 73 days ago | past |
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| | Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by ibobev 76 days ago | past |
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| | Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 4 points by ibobev 78 days ago | past |
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| | Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) |
| 3 points by LorenDB 78 days ago | past |
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