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The DLL that was not present in memory despite not being formally unloaded (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by supermatou 1 day ago | past | discuss
Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
2 points by ibobev 1 day ago | past | discuss
Microspeak elaborated: Isn't escrow just a release candidate by another name? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
5 points by AndrewDucker 2 days ago | past | discuss
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
602 points by saikatsg 3 days ago | past | 119 comments
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
8 points by signa11 3 days ago | past | discuss
In memory of the man who put red and green squiggles under words (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
97 points by tyoma 4 days ago | past | 1 comment
Why doesn't Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I'm impersonating? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 6 days ago | past | discuss
What does it mean when the bottom bit of my HMODULE is set? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 6 days ago | past | discuss
Why doesn't Get­Last­Input­Info() return info for the user I'm impersonating? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 7 days ago | past | discuss
Windows stack limit checking retrospective, follow-up (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 8 days ago | past | discuss
Why is address space allocation granularity 64KB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by tosh 8 days ago | past | discuss
Retrofitting the WM_COPY­DATA message onto Windows 3.1 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
5 points by ibobev 9 days ago | past | discuss
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
130 points by tosh 10 days ago | past | 36 comments
The time the x86 emulator team found code so bad they fixed it during emulation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
504 points by paulmooreparks 10 days ago | past | 173 comments
How can I schedule work on a thread pool with low latency? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by ibobev 11 days ago | past | discuss
Understanding the rationale behind a rule when trying to circumvent it (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
8 points by ibobev 14 days ago | past
Why do you say that a COM STA thread must pump messages? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
4 points by ibobev 14 days ago | past
C++: The Programming Language Cover Raises Unanswered Questions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by birdculture 19 days ago | past
The back cover of C++: The Language raises questions not answered by front cover (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
156 points by paulmooreparks 20 days ago | past | 51 comments
A discovery about GCC's unidirectional rotation algorithm (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
41 points by soheilpro 22 days ago | past | 18 comments
Sharing the result of a single Windows Runtime IAsyncOperation (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 24 days ago | past
The placeholder name for the Windows 8 experience was "modern" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
41 points by paulmooreparks 24 days ago | past | 54 comments
What Is the Thread Reaper? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
3 points by vintagedave 34 days ago | past
What is the history of the ERROR_ARENA_TRASHED error code? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
58 points by supermatou 36 days ago | past | 16 comments
The case of the Create­File­Mapping that always reported ERROR_ALREADY_EXISTS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
1 point by ibobev 39 days ago | past
Why do Windows editions on 32-bit x86 systems artificially limit RAM to 4 GB? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
6 points by supermatou 42 days ago | past
IBM didn't want Microsoft to use the Tab key to move between dialog fields (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
397 points by SeenNotHeard 52 days ago | past | 240 comments
How do I inform Windows that I'm writing a binary file? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
73 points by ingve 52 days ago | past | 71 comments
Why are there both TMP and TEMP environment variables? (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
216 points by ankitg12 55 days ago | past | 97 comments
Consequences of passing too few register parameters to a C function (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing)
98 points by aragonite 59 days ago | past | 29 comments

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