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Posts for devblogs.microsoft.com on Oct 2026

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22 The support case of a customer who said that all they could see was a black screen - The Old New Thing
21 C++/WinRT overcorrection: Using make_self and immediately converting it to the projected interface - The Old New Thing
20 Why don't we run the taskbar and Task Manager at high priority, so they can remain responsive? - The Old New Thing
19 Puzzling out why a program doesn't work when run from a batch file, but works when double-clicked from Explorer - The Old New Thing
18 Why didn't we use the COM static store to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? - The Old New Thing
17 Why didn't we use Co­Register­Initialize­Spy to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? - The Old New Thing
16 Why didn't we use Ro­Register­For­Apartment­Shutdown to clean up the unmarshalable delegate? - The Old New Thing
15 Microspeak: Drain the slide, back-up slides - The Old New Thing
14 Why do we need ud2 when int 6 is right there? - The Old New Thing
13 C++ futures part 5: std::future and std::shared_future - The Old New Thing
12 C++ futures part 4: What if I want an immediate on-thread std::async? - The Old New Thing
11 C++ futures part 3: The mental model for std::async - The Old New Thing
10 C++ futures part 2: The mental model for std::promise, std::packaged_task - The Old New Thing
9 C++ futures part 1: The mental model - The Old New Thing
8 One way of thinking about access specifiers in C++/WinRT implementation types - The Old New Thing
7 If one anti-malware software is good, does that make two better? - The Old New Thing
6 How can undefined opcodes ud0 and ud1 have parameters? How undefined were they? - The Old New Thing
5 Why does the compiler sometimes use ud2 and sometimes int 3 for code that shouldn't execute? - The Old New Thing
4 If somebody tries to hot-patch an already-hot-patched function, how do they avoid conflicts? - The Old New Thing
3 Why is there no Windows hot-patching support for other architectures like 32-bit ARM and MIPS? - The Old New Thing
2 Windows on Itanium also provided for hot-patching, in an even simpler way - The Old New Thing
1 Windows on AArch64 also provides for hot-patching, but it's much simpler than on x86 - The Old New Thing