(RTTNews) - Dave Plummer, a highly skilled programmer who worked at Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), recently shared an interesting story about the development of the Format dialog box on his X account. Back ...

There’s one Windows dialog box that has remained untouched for the past 30 years, despite several operating systems and UI updates. The dialog box in question is the one that pops up when you try to ...

It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace ...

It was added back in Windows NT as a temporary solution, but you're still using it. Updates in computing are crucial for several reasons. They improve security by fixing vulnerabilities, add new ...

Why it matters: There is nothing more enduring than a "temporary" code patchwork for a vast software project. Former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer provides yet another demonstration of this golden ...

I mentioned before that you could create an MS-DOS boot disk in Windows XP. Several readers have asked about the procedure, so here it is. Insert a disk into your floppy disk drive and run Windows ...