Microsoft veteran Raymond Chen explains how Windows 95 used file names and paths to detect installer programs and protect ...
XDA Developers on MSN
A Microsoft engineer revealed Windows 95's smart way for spotting installers: It just guessed
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 ...
Windows 95 relied on surprisingly simple tricks to spot setup files, revealing an unexpected design choice behind its ...
Tom's Hardware on MSN
Windows 95 didn’t detect installers, it ‘guessed’ based on the file name, says veteran dev
Microsoft's Raymond Chen describes the string-matching heuristic behind the OS's system-file recovery.
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 ...
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 ...
The switch from Windows 3.x to Windows 95 was a big step for Microsoft and their software developers. Accordingly, Microsoft tested the compatibility of as many programs as possible when making the ...
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