How Microsoft Bob ended up being a part of every copy of Windows XP

[latif]

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/magazine/2008.07.windowsconfidential.aspx

[dmfdmf]

Microsoft should offer $1M for anyone who cracks the encryption on the MS Bob data. Not sure why they'd do that but it would be a fun contest.

[malbs → dmfdmf]

Someone will probably do it 'just for fun'

[rbanffy → dmfdmf]

Want to bet the guy who did it knows perfectly well the passphrase? Want to bet it's something in the lines of "dumbsuitmakesstupidrequests" or "billgatesisanidiot"?

[tibbon]

I rather like what Microsoft has been doing lately with their blogging. It isn't the super stuffy "we are always right and have always been flawless", but is actually worth reading and gives some decent insights.

[ambition → tibbon]

Raymond Chen (the author of this article), Larry Osterman and others have been writing great historical MS stuff for years. There's lots of great stuff if you've got the time to read it.

[malbs → tibbon]

I could quite happily purge the majority of my rss feeds and not miss them, but I wouldn't remove 'The Old New Thing' (Raymond Chen's blog) - it's got great anecdotes, insight into MS, and some very good technical content.

[_tfee]

This is fantastic. I'd love to hear more interesting tidbits of information like this.

[mmastrac → _tfee]

Subscribe to Raymond Chen's blog: http://blogs.msdn.com/oldnewthing/

It's basically this sort of article, published a few times a month, interspersed with low-level Windows technical articles.

[_tfee → mmastrac]

Cool. Thanks for the link.

[Adrock]

That's not the only way... that dog made it into Window XP's search.