This kind of thing provides endless material for Raymond Chen's blog[1]. It also explains a lot of the insane backwards compatability that is still in Windows.

This kind of thing provides endless material for Raymond Chen's blog[1]. It also explains a lot of the insane backwards compatability that is still in Windows. [1]http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/ http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/