WIndows XP OOBE music probably holds the record as the single piece of music not heard by most people when it was being played
Can we please address the elephant in the room called Electron first before picking on native apps a bit too liberal with memory usage?
The Windows 1.0 Calendar is actually *more* memory intensive when you factor in the fact this runs in 640k. With way less functionality, obv.
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Did you know? In 1986, Microsoft released a version of MS-DOS which supported preemptive multitasking for compatible applications.
This version was called MS-DOS 4.0 and is completely unrelated to the proper, widespread version of MS-DOS 4.0 from 1988!
ALT Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 showing a "Switch" popup with "COMMAND", "FDISK", "DISKCOPY" and "Start a program" options.
ALT Multitasking MS-DOS 4.0 showing the output of the command `ps -lp` with multiple processes running on the machine.
>Even Tech People can get Fooled..
if you get fooled by this, you're not a tech person
let's have the Store website start downloading suspicious looking EXEs out of nowhere instead of redirecting people to the app, what could go wrong?
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nice one, wouldn't have expected CreateProcess to actually have a special case for batch files
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the audacity...
The xz fiasco has shown how a dependence on unpaid volunteers can cause major problems. Trillion dollar corporations expect free and urgent support from volunteers.
@Microsoft @MicrosoftTeams posted on a bug tracker full of volunteers that their issue is "high priority"
