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Raymond Chen may not intentionally lie, but he can be wrong and has been wrong in the past. One obvious example that I remember is when he said that the reason

Raymond Chen may not intentionally lie, but he can be wrong and has been wrong in the past. One obvious example that I remember is when he said that the reason Pinball.exe disappeared from Windows Vista was because they couldn't port it to 64 bits. And yet as I read every single clickbait newssite parrot what he was saying, I was literally playing 64-bit Pinball.exe on a standard Windows XP x64 edition ... The comments in his blog disappear every time Microsoft shuffles it around, so these discussions are lost forever.

mananaysiempre 5y ago
Not lost, for now: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm>. (Thankfully, MSDN blog comments didn’t require JavaScript, or they would now be lost...) Here’s the Pinball piece, for example: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20121218_294_why_was_pinball_removed_from_windows_vista.htm http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20121218_294_...>.
aoetalks 5y ago
It was probably the 32 bit version of pinball, running on 64 bit windows via WoW64
- AshamedCaptain 5y ago
  No. Easily distinguishable by the * (or lack of it) in task manager.
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