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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by yuhong on Monday June 04, 2018 @02:49AM (#17225211)
I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by Hendrikto on Monday June 04, 2018 @04:47AM (#17225766)
Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.
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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by yuhong on Monday June 04, 2018 @05:41PM (#17232817)
For SYSENTER: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710

Another example: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

This is just what is public.

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Re:Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub by hestefisk on Monday June 04, 2018 @06:22AM (#17226343)
Source? Skype was always quite cross platform imho.
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