Marius Bancila’s Blog

I read a very interesting article written in 2004 by Joel Spolsky, called How Microsoft Lost the API War. It shares my view that latelly, Microsoft has released simply too many programs and technologies and we can no longer cope with them. They have to take a break (and fix problems in the current releases) and give us a break too. Though a few years old, I find it very actual, and I encourage you to read it.

One funny thing that I read in the article was a problem of the famous SimCity game, which crashed on the beta release of Windows 95, because it accessed memory after it was freed. So Microsoft changed memory handling, introducing a special check for the program that was running, and if SimCity was found it allowed it to access memory after it was freed.