An educated guess, but a guess nonetheless ...
Veteran Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen has confirmed what we all suspected about Windows 95: it guessed when a setup program ...
Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains how Windows 95 used file names and paths to detect installer programs and protect ...
Retro Potato: Longtime Microsoft software engineer Raymond Chen recently responded to an intriguing retro-tech question posed by a game developer on X. The developer inquired about the three distinct ...
Windows 95 relied on surprisingly simple tricks to spot setup files, revealing an unexpected design choice behind its ...
Retro Potato: Raymond Chen is once again sharing an intriguing behind-the-scenes story about the making of Windows 95. It turns out that building the setup process for the consumer-oriented operating ...
Microsoft's Raymond Chen describes the string-matching heuristic behind the OS's system-file recovery.