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I really hate the way Microsoft rearranges their web pages seemingly on a whim. You can't rely on a link to them being useful for any significant period of tim
by mark-r 6y ago
I really hate the way Microsoft rearranges their web pages seemingly on a whim. You can't rely on a link to them being useful for any significant period of time, and as you note useful information is lost on a frequent basis.
- saagarjha 6y agoIt’s not just Microsoft. Apple regularly deprecates and moves around or deleted old documentation, too.
- tialaramex 6y agoWhere applicable: Look for URLs in aka.ms - this looks superficially like a link shortener but (whether by corporate policy or just people inside Microsoft agree with us) they are maintained so that when the pages are all shuffled around the aka.ms links still get where you were going. https://aka.ms/RootCert https://aka.ms/RootCert will always be Microsoft's Root Trust programme documentation (how a Certificate Authority like Let's Encrypt gets themselves listed as trusted in Windows) even when Microsoft decides that page should now be in the form of a GIF anim or a 3D bullet hell game.