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Documenting software history, one piece at a time • https://t.co/5DFuc2V9p1
Mar 30, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
For those wondering: How did you find the easter egg? Do you spend your free time clicking around places and typing MORTIMER? I don't.
To discover well hidden easter eggs like this you first need a lead, like searching across OS files for names, a key component of credits rolls. My initial goal was to find the code responsible for the Win95 Product Team/Clouds easter egg. While nothing related came up (thanks to the data of that easter egg being encrypted) I suddenly got a result in a DLL used by Internet Mail & News, so into the disassembler it went.
Mar 12, 2020 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
In case you've used M2 Windows 7 builds, you probably didn't think much of IE. Sure the branding said "IE 8 Beta," but besides an "Emulate IE7" button, there wasn't much else to look at in the UI. The lockdown mechanism for new IE bits is almost identical to the shell one, almost IE 8 in Windows 7 build 6730 hides an overhauled New Tab page, the entirety of InPrivate mode, the new first run experience, extra bits in add-on management, and Tab Groups. The name "InPrivate" hadn't even been introduced at this point, so it's simply "Private Browsing" ImageImageImageImage
Mar 1, 2020 • 12 tweets • 9 min read
Almost 10 years later: the beginnings of Metro, uncovered.
This is the first time we get to see the UI / charms selection that @ChenCravat mentioned here: devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20…
More screens soon 😊
cc @h0x0d @ChenCravat @h0x0d I promised more screens, so here they come.
When I got this to work, I couldn't believe my eyes. There was a Start screen (or Launcher, if we want to go by accurate terminologies) ready to greet you by the end of Milestone 1, provided you had the elusive redpill unlock of course.
Jun 12, 2019 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Here we go
Build 18917 shows first signs of Microsoft's work towards separating the base OS and the shell when it comes to standard desktop Windows

The build introduces a new component called the "Shell Update Agent" which is capable of obtaining and updating the shell on demand Features associated with this new mechanism call it the Undocked Shell, the first time we've seen "Undocked" in feature names was when Microsoft decoupled the Search and Cortana experiences