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2006The great Polish Sea or We forgot Poland (devblogs.microsoft.com)
132 points | 10 months ago with 31 comments
2004The x86 architecture is the weirdo (devblogs.microsoft.com)
121 points | 2 years ago with 81 comments
2019The sad history of Unicode printf-style format specifiers in Visual C++ (devblogs.microsoft.com)
103 points | 1 year ago with 68 comments
2010How do I delete bytes from the beginning of a file? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
100 points | 4 years ago with 86 comments
2003Why is a registry file called a “hive”? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
88 points | 2 years ago with 104 comments
2014Undefined behavior can result in time travel (devblogs.microsoft.com)
80 points | 4 years ago with 23 comments
2005Buying an entire Egghead Software store (devblogs.microsoft.com)
71 points | 11 months ago with 22 comments
2004Why did InterlockedIncrement/Decrement only return result’s sign? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
62 points | 1 year ago with 42 comments
2003Why doesn't Windows have an "expert mode"? (devblogs.microsoft.com)
57 points | 5 months ago with 58 comments
2018The MIPS R4000, part 9: Stupid branch delay slot tricks (devblogs.microsoft.com)
44 points | 3 years ago with 17 comments
2003Why Microsoft removed time zone world map feature from Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com)
31 points | 1 year ago with 7 comments
2016PowerShell is now open-source, and cross-platform (devblogs.microsoft.com)
23 points | 1 year ago with 1 comments
2012Why MulDiv(1, -0x80M, -0x80M) returns 2 on Windows (devblogs.microsoft.com)
13 points | 6 months ago with 0 comments

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