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🦥 Microsoft slowed down driver installations on Windows 9x

Did you know that Windows 9x distributions contain a hardcoded artificial 8-second delay when the system detects new hardware? During the first 3 seconds, the system displays a generic device name and class ID, and the final 5 seconds are dedicated to showing the device logo and its pretty name if the driver is found.

That's hysterical, but I'm assuming there were benign intentions there — Microsoft probably wanted the user to acquaint themselves with the device that's being installed. Eight whole seconds, though, on the other hand, sound excessive. Maybe they were going for a placebo effect as well, trying to convince the user their computer is doing something.

The delay can be fixed by patching sysdm.cpl.

It's not a joke, Microsoft Weather reports -273C for everyone right now. Don't go outside.

If you set the language to Afrikaans in Minecraft snapshot 12w04a (1.2.1), the «Singleplayer» string will turn into the following...

If the AV1 codec is this good, where's AV2... oh

the dreaded ███████.xm

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😳 It's happening

After so many years, Microsoft has added dark mode to the run box. Looks like, at last, some enthusiastic intern got access to editing msstyles...