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I think another example was by joelonsoftware, where when MS moved to win 95, they actually ran popular software looking for bugs, and found the SimCity would u
by dispose13432 10y ago
I think another example was by joelonsoftware, where when MS moved to win 95, they actually ran popular software looking for bugs, and found the SimCity would use-after-free (which, before 95 wouldn't crash), so they modified their OS to leave that memory cell intact even after free.
- monochromatic 10y agoThey do this kind of stuff all the time[0], and it provides enormous value to users. [0] https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/ https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/
- rasz_pl 10y agoThey do it to this day. Application compatibility assistant or whatever its called now runs on every single machine and hot patches loaded programs. Malware authors love it. https://tzworks.net/prototype_page.php?proto_id=33 https://tzworks.net/prototype_page.php?proto_id=33