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We track 21 posts about Windows from 12 engineering blogs. Most active: Raymond Chen, Raymond Chen, Daniel Doubrovkine (dB.). Latest post: Oct 7, 2026.
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NVIDIA, Microsoft Kick Off a New Beginning for Windows PCs With RTX Spark and AI Agents (opens on the source site)
Nvidia ·
At a Microsoft event in San Francisco on Wednesday, Jensen Huang and Satya Nadella outlined how NVIDIA and Microsoft are co-engineering hardware and software for AI agents to run on Windows PCs. NVIDIA was founded because of Windows, Huang said. Now AI agents are coming to Windows. “If you look at the entire journey of […]
Building and testing a config management orchestrator for Windows (opens on the source site)
The following is part of a series of posts about 2026 summer intern projects—for more, see “What the interns have wrought, special jumbo 2026 edition”
Universal Copy System Link for 97 Windows PCs (opens on the source site)
In 1997 I wrote UcsLink.Fusion for the University of Geneva. We had hundreds of PCs across the city, Sun and Windows NT servers, and Windows 95 and Linux workstations. Getting a user’s software and settings onto whichever PC they sat down at was a job for login scripts. I wrote a Delphi 2.0 application to do it instead. UCS stood for Universal Copy System. Fusion read a script that mapped network drives, copied shared software, created shortcuts, connected printers, set environment variables and synchronized the clock. It could include other scripts, test conditions and clean up files left by…
Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? (opens on the source site)
They either predate hot-patching or never needed it. The post Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Demoting i686 Windows targets to std-only (opens on the source site)
Rust ·
With Rust 1.100.0, the following changes to 32-bit Windows targets will happen: i686-pc-windows-msvc Tier 1 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 1 without host tools. i686-pc-windows-gnu Tier 2 with host tools target will be demoted to Tier 2 without host tools. Builds of the standard library will continue to be distributed, but host tools such as the compiler will be no longer available. i686-pc-windows-msvc as a Tier 1 target still undergoes CI testing. To build 32-bit Windows binaries, cross-compiling from a still-supported host toolchain (such as a 64-bit Windows ones) will be…
Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way (opens on the source site)
Once again, the benefit of fixed-length instructions. The post Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 (opens on the source site)
Fixed-length instructions makes it a much easier task. The post Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it’s much simpler than on x86 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts (opens on the source site)
Right-clicking and shift-clicking. The post A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Quiz: Setting Up Python for Machine Learning on Windows (opens on the source site)
Test your understanding of setting up a Python machine learning environment on Windows with Miniconda, Conda environments, packages, and channels.
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (opens on the source site)
It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? (opens on the source site)
It's random, really. The post What algorithm did Windows XP use to choose your initial user picture? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95 (opens on the source site)
For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95 (opens on the source site)
For a driver that needs high resolution mode only in Windows. The post A sample use of the winstart.bat file in Windows 95 appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator? (opens on the source site)
It wouldn't be a Windows Entertainment Pack then, would it? The post Why didn’t the Windows Entertainment Pack just run the MS-DOS version inside an emulator? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box (opens on the source site)
Filling in with your imagination. The post Comparing the two holograms on the Windows 95 box appeared first on The Old New Thing.
Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? (opens on the source site)
A contingency plan. The post Why did the Microsoft Entertainment Pack for Windows have a special sticker announcing that it also had Tetris? appeared first on The Old New Thing.
There’s a libcurl.dll in my system32 (opens on the source site)
This afternoon I had a meeting with IT people at a huge US power infrastructure company. They had found a libcurl.dll file in their C:\Windows\System32 directory and asked us for help to upgrade it. Their vulnerability scanner identified it as vulnerable to several publicly known vulnerabilities. Can we bump it to the latest version please? … Continue reading There’s a libcurl.dll in my system32 →
Automatically Signing a Windows EXE with Azure Trusted Signing, dotnet sign, and GitHub Actions (opens on the source site)
Mac Tahoe (in Beta as of the time of this writing) has this new feature called Edge Light that basically puts a bright picture of an Edge Light around your screen and basically uses the power of OLED to give you a virtual ring light. So I was like, why can't we also have nice things? I wrote (vibed, with GitHub Copilot and Claude Sonnet 4.5) a Windows Edge Light App (source code at https://github.com/shanselman/WindowsEdgeLight and you can get the latest release here https://github.com/shanselman/WindowsEdgeLight/releases or the app will check for new releases and autoupdate with Updatum).…
From Crash to Resolution: A Practical Guide for Xbox & Windows Developers (opens on the source site)
If you’ve ever had an app crash at the worst possible moment, you’ll know how frustrating it can be - both for developers and players. Recently, I wrote an article for the Microsoft Developer blog that dives deep into this exact challenge: how to diagnose and resolve
Boost File Scanning Speed: Query File Attributes on Windows 50x Faster (opens on the source site)
Imagine you’re developing a tool that needs to scan for file changes across thousands of project files. Retrieving file attributes efficiently becomes critical for such scenarios. In this article, I’ll demonstrate a technique to get file attributes that can achieve a surprising speedup of over 50+ times compared to standard Windows methods. Let’s dive in and explore how we can achieve this. Inspiration & Disclaimer The inspiration for this article came from a recent update for Visual Assist - a tool that heavily improves Visual Studio experience and productivity for C# and C++ developers. In…
Clang on Windows (opens on the source site)
Thanks to the MSYS2 project, now there is an easy way to utilize Clang to build C/C++ application on Windows. This works equally well for both 32-bit and 64-bit programs.
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