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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by userbinator on Saturday June 18, 2022 @06:46PM (#31794491)
That's Microsoft being (the new, not the old) Microsoft... they seriously fucked up the MSDN documentation when it was migrated to docs.microsoft.com, so I'm not surprised that a similar thing happened to the blogs:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20351358

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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by naikrovek on Saturday June 18, 2022 @11:29PM (#31795889)
they knew they would and they advertised that fact, and made blog and content owners migrate their stuff if they wanted it kept. many chose not to. those are the people you should be angry with.
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by int_19h on Sunday June 19, 2022 @05:42AM (#31797812)
Many of the people were no longer at Microsoft when the migration happened, but their blogs were no less useful for that.

And some weren't even alive. Michael Kaplan and his amazing blog about internationalization and Unicode comes to mind - thankfully, other people have archived it: http://archives.miloush.net/michkap/archive/

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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by manigandham on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:28AM (#31796172)
Or they could've just migrated it for them, and kept everything running.
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by naikrovek on Wednesday June 22, 2022 @01:12AM (#31832281)
I'm told that MSDN blog posts were owned by the authors, not Microsoft.

it wasn't Microsoft's content to move.

movement to docs.microsoft.com meant giving copyright to Microsoft, and not everyone chose to do that.

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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by denimnerd42 on Sunday June 19, 2022 @12:21AM (#31796133)
that's quite a take.. expecting previous article writers to manually migrate their stuff is just as good as killing it.
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Re:Cross-compiling binaries for Windows is easier than build... by naikrovek on Sunday June 19, 2022 @02:33PM (#31802025)
the blog authors knew the content was their own responsibility going in.

"quite a take" f u

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