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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 12 hours ago | past | 1 comment Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older one (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by michelangelo 1 day ago | past | discuss Window 95 defenses against installers overwriting files with older versions (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by supermatou 4 days ago | past | discuss Windows 95 defenses against installers that overwrite a file with an older (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 5 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: ARM64, also known as AArch64 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 6 days ago | past | discuss Taxes: Geopolitics (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by stevefan1999 9 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: x86-32 also known as i386 (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 12 days ago | past | discuss Windows stack limit checking retrospective: MIPS (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ibobev 14 days ago | past Windows stack limit checking retrospective: PowerPC (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by LorenDB 14 days ago | past A survey of write protect notches on floppy disks and other media (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by ingve 26 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 27 days ago | past Intercepting messages inside Is­Dialog­Message, installing the message filter (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 9 points by ibobev 31 days ago | past Microspeak: Escrow (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 39 days ago | past | 9 comments Could Write­Process­Memory be made faster by avoiding the intermediate buffer? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 39 days ago | past Studying compiler error messages closely: Input file paths (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 45 days ago | past What should I do if a wait call reports WAIT_ABANDONED? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 46 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 48 days ago | past | 161 comments Why does Windows keep your BIOS clock on local time? (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ryukoposting 55 days ago | past | 1 comment Why did I lose the data even though I called Safe­Array­Add­Ref? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 59 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 59 days ago | past C++ has scope_exit for running code at scope exit (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by firesteelrain 66 days ago | past Faster restart of Windows 95 when you hold the shift key (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 15 points by todsacerdoti 70 days ago | past Clipping the focus item when looking for its on-screen location (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 70 days ago | past Using Active Accessibility to find out where the focus item is (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 70 days ago | past When programs assume the system will never change, episode 4: Stealing strings (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 74 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 83 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 84 days ago | past Understanding and mitigating a stack overflow in our task sequencer (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by mooreds 85 days ago | past Swapping two blocks of memory inside a larger block, in constant memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 48 points by paulmooreparks 87 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 88 days ago | past More

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