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3D Pinball bug allowed game to run at 5,000 FPS — former Microsoft programmer didn't add a rev limiter when porting game from Windows 95 to NT

3D Pinball: Space Cadet is one of the classic games found in early copies of Windows, first arriving in Microsoft Plus! for Windows 95, before being bundled into the operating system until Windows XP.
Computerworld

Windows Azure: Microsoft banks on programmer loyalty

Microsoft Corp.’s long hold on power in the software industry has depended on its solid grip on developers. Programmers have written uncountable desktop and client/server applications over the decades ...
ZDNet

Microsoft: Our Rust programming language Windows runtime library is now in preview

Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...
ZDNet

Microsoft asks 'So who wants to be a programmer?'

Microsoft launched a new Web site on March 1, its Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC), with the aim of bringing more "non-professional" programmers into the Microsoft fold. The new site is ...
The Verge

Microsoft’s new developer-optimized Windows embraces Linux even more

Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its Linux subsystem even further into Windows. Microsoft is embracing Linux-like command line utilities and integrating its ...