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C++ says “We have try... finally at home” (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 115 points by ibobev 1 day ago | past | 132 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? Full barriers are enough? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by signa11 1 day ago | past | discuss Janet Jackson had the power to crash laptop computers (2022) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 301 points by montalbano 1 day ago | past | 124 comments Why are we worried about memory access semantics? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by HeliumHydride 2 days ago | past | discuss Why is the last letter of my string not making it to the clipboard? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by HeliumHydride 3 days ago | past | discuss C++: "We have try...finally at home" (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by HeliumHydride 4 days ago | past | 1 comment Microspeak: North Star – The Old New Thing (2015) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 26 points by rbanffy 5 days ago | past | 10 comments When irate product support customers demand to speak to Bill Gates (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 79 points by magnat 5 days ago | past | 35 comments All the other cool languages have try finally. C++: We have try at home (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by macote 5 days ago | past | 1 comment Concluding thoughts on our deep dive into Windows clipboard text conversion (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by ibobev 7 days ago | past | discuss The Windows clipboard automatic text conversion algorithm is path-dependent (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 1 point by ibobev 7 days ago | past | discuss Why does Windows take the scenic route converting from CF_TEXT to CF_OEM­TEXT? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by zdw 11 days ago | past | discuss Resolving an ambiguity in the Windows clipboard automated text conversion table (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 15 days ago | past Various locale mismatch scenarios in Windows clipboard text format synthesis (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 29 points by ibobev 16 days ago | past | 7 comments How does Windows synthesize CF_Unicode­TEXT from CF_TEXT and vice versa? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 10 points by ibobev 18 days ago | past | discuss How can I read the standard output of an already-running process? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 61 points by ibobev 23 days ago | past | 33 comments Uninitialized garbage on ia64 can be deadly (2004) (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 98 points by HeliumHydride 24 days ago | past | 83 comments How can I have a Win32 drop-down combo box with a read-only edit control? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by susam 27 days ago | past XAML breaks down when I have an element that is half a billion pixels tall (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by ingve 34 days ago | past Is Write­Process­Memory faster than shared memory for transferring data (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 37 days ago | past How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 147 points by ayi 37 days ago | past | 109 comments How can I detect that Windows is running in S-Mode, redux (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by kencausey 41 days ago | past Behind the scenes on how Windows 95 app compatibility patched broken programs (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by paulmooreparks 47 days ago | past Windows 95 application compatibility patched broken programs (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 7 points by vitplister 47 days ago | past Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 50 days ago | past Non-recursively deleting a binary tree in constant space: Restructuring the tree (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 2 points by ibobev 51 days ago | past The Microsoft SoftCard for the Apple II: Getting two processors to share memory (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 122 points by zdw 54 days ago | past | 60 comments Microspeak: Turn into a Pumpkin (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 4 points by zdw 58 days ago | past How did the Windows 95 UI code get brought to the Windows NT code base? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 3 points by Aloha 58 days ago | past How did the Win 95 user interface code get brought to the Windows NT code base? (devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing) 5 points by soheilpro 61 days ago | past More

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