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Old New Thing Blog

This cluster revolves around users sharing direct links and references to various posts from Raymond Chen's 'The Old New Thing' blog on Microsoft's devblogs, focusing on Windows programming trivia, history, and quirks.

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RC MS youtube.com IE9 xobni.com technet.com HN aka.ms azure.com Explorer.html microsoft direct link url direct com updated documentation link click links

Sample Comments

Nextgrid • Aug 17, 2022 • View on HN

Direct link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20220816-00/?p=10...

vwuon • Nov 5, 2019 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24...

lemmiwinks • Nov 22, 2022 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20050107-00/?p=36...

baeaz • Dec 28, 2022 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20070821-01/?p=25...

ChrisArchitect • Oct 29, 2025 • View on HN

Source: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20251028-00/?p=11... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45734412)

baisq • Jun 27, 2022 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20101203-00/?p=12...

ygra • Jun 19, 2022 • View on HN

Note: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=12...

mikequinlan • Jun 27, 2022 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20030828-00/?p=42...

yellowstuff • Jun 26, 2020 • View on HN

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20121218-00/?p=58...

DiabloD3 • Nov 30, 2011 • View on HN

URL biased as hell, its from Microsoft Technet