Okay so the ultimate cause is apparently "because Microsoft was legally compelled to publicly document poorly-designed internal functions as part of the DOJ ant

Okay so the ultimate cause is apparently "because Microsoft was legally compelled to publicly document poorly-designed internal functions as part of the DOJ anti-trust suit". Go figure why Raymond Chen decided to do a blog post on this though, since apparently that is a verboten topic which leads to a weirdly sparse article that doesn't answer its title question, and a censored comment thread. It's annoying, but given that it's nearly a decade old it's probably not worth getting upset over it.