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To properly appreciate a post like this one, it should ideally be paired with a Raymond Chen post that argues in Hercule Poirot style irrefutable logic how a co
by chihuahua 11mo ago
To properly appreciate a post like this one, it should ideally be paired with a Raymond Chen post that argues in Hercule Poirot style irrefutable logic how a combination of backwards-compatibility with CP/M and some 1990s programming done by raccoons means that this messed up state of affairs is logically the only way it could possibly be.
- jodrellblank 11mo agoRaymond Chen from 2004, slightly unsatisfying[1]. Try Mark Russinovich post with technical details about rewriting Explorer's copy routines from XP to Vista[2]. Windows 8 team blog on updating the copy dialog UX[3]. [1] https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040106-00/?p=41193 https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20040106-00/?p=41... [2] https://web.archive.org/web/20120608005952/http://blogs.technet.com/b/markrussinovich/archive/2008/02/04/2826167.aspx https://web.archive.org/web/20120608005952/http://blogs.tech... [3] https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/improving-our-file-management-basics-copy-move-rename-and-delete?Redirected=true https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/archive/blogs/b8/improving...