(RTTNews) - Dave Plummer, a highly skilled programmer who worked at Microsoft Corp. (MSFT), recently shared an interesting story about the development of the Format dialog box on his X account. Back ...

There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. There’s lots of old UI in Windows, but some of it was only supposed to be temporary. is a senior correspondent and ...

It turns out that a small but useful menu inside your modern Windows PC was designed and built in one day in 1994. It was meant to be a temporary stopgap until something better was created to replace ...

Why it matters: There is nothing more enduring than a "temporary" code patchwork for a vast software project. Former Microsoft employee Dave Plummer provides yet another demonstration of this golden ...