I don't remember Raymond Chen ever lying. If there weren't legitimate reasons, Raymond would just not talk about them. Especially since this would be a very elaborate, multi-faceted lie that anybody with an intermediate knowledge of the inner workings of Windows 9x would've been able to call out.

Raymond Chen may not intentionally lie, but he can be wrong and has been wrong in the past. One obvious example that I remember is when he said that the reason Pinball.exe disappeared from Windows Vista was because they couldn't port it to 64 bits. And yet as I read every single clickbait newssite parrot what he was saying, I was literally playing 64-bit Pinball.exe on a standard Windows XP x64 edition ...

The comments in his blog disappear every time Microsoft shuffles it around, so these discussions are lost forever.

Not lost, for now: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/index.htm>. (Thankfully, MSDN blog comments didn’t require JavaScript, or they would now be lost...) Here’s the Pinball piece, for example: <http://bytepointer.com/resources/old_new_thing/20121218_294_...>.

It was probably the 32 bit version of pinball, running on 64 bit windows via WoW64

No. Easily distinguishable by the * (or lack of it) in task manager.

I guess I'm expecting lies of omission here. My guess is that content on Microsoft's blogs, especially about this period is cleared with legal before anything goes up.