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Raymond Chen is the tech writer who has influenced me the most. His blog has really helped me understand how large long-running software projects work (or at le
by CJefferson 10y ago
Raymond Chen is the tech writer who has influenced me the most. His blog has really helped me understand how large long-running software projects work (or at least, how they work at Microsoft), and how apparently strange features can come into existence in a sensible way.
One interesting evolution over time is how Windows moved from basically trusting all applications (which they had to do in Windows 3.X anyway, as any badly behaving app could crash the whole system) to treating applications as bad actors.
- ikeboy 10y agoI haven't seen anything from him on the whole Windows 10 forced update fiasco. I'm curious how that played out internally.
- CJefferson 10y agoHe mostly only discusses things where there is an interesting code angle, with the updating there is just politics really.
- chadgeidel 10y agoI think he writes his blog posts a year or so in advance. https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090227-00/?p=19003/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20090227-00/?p=...