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I guess it might have been more to do with localization than localizability after all! (2012/03/30)
…ally since there are also some unrelated UI problems that make localization of the UI difficult. Perhaps someone on the Shell team can weigh in on the actual root cause of this bug that apples to Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, and (ac…
How to localize a product very wrongly like (2012/03/27)
…ally since there are also some unrelated UI problems that make localization of the UI difficult. Perhaps someone on the Shell team can weigh in on the actual root cause of this bug that apples to Vista, Server 2008, Windows 7, Server 2008 R2, and (ac…
Pedantic nitpickery, turned up to 11 (2011/07/18)
…ershell and team responsible. (On second reading it seems attack is on cmdlets, whose authors may or may not be on Powershell team) In the end it looks like misunderstanding escalating quickly. Michael S. Kaplan on 18 Jul 2011 3:18 PM: You're probabl…
Loading the strings from the MUI file? (2010/08/11)
…l32.dll. For almost everyone in the world, that is the wrong thing to do; the one real exception would be people on the Shell team who are loading the strings as part of their feature -- no one else should really be depending on strings in system fil…
A serious lack of overlap with 64 (2008/08/02)
…anony.muos on 2 Aug 2008 5:03 AM: Since this blog is related to fonts/typography, I'd like to mention that probably the shell team in Vista forgot to add some special menu items which the Font folder has in Vista's Explorer. I can't locate "Hide vari…
Social engineering in Windows Explorer.... (2007/12/08)
…f files on a web server that could not be accessed by others through the web interface? Of course I don't speak for the Shell team so I have no idea if they would want to expand this behavior or not. Though if they do ask, you might now have some ins…
*Not* new in Vista SP1 -- the Add font dialog.... (2007/09/25)
…(indeed as any kind of regression) or as anything but a feature. The whole folder and the dialog actually belong to the Shell team (not the Typography team), and as such has really not had much opportunity for growth or change other than some of the …
The Unicode train? It left the station.... (2007/05/07)
… out, that the Unicode train has been leaving the station for long enough that it has in fact left? If the folks on the Shell team asked me which was more important: improving Unicode support, or fixing this particular "ANSI" regression, which do you…
Here is what's up with localized paths in Vista (and in Windows!) (2007/02/21)
…s much confusion about how to get the localized information. Well, confusion can now be over, as Ming Zhu, a dev on the Shell team, has stepped up and not only clarified the usage of SHGetLocalizedName but also provided some code to get the localized…
What the %$#& is up with localized paths in Vista? (2007/01/18)
… thus far no one seems to know the answer.... # Ming Zhu on Wednesday, February 21, 2007 1:00 PM: I am from the Windows Shell team. I have recently come across a customer question with the link to this blog. I can see many confusion here and I feel t…
Sometimes what a person really wants is a LACK of size (2006/12/13)
Over the time I have had this blog, I have often had occasion to say nice things about work that the Shell team does. One of the main reasons for this is a particular characteristic that its members tend to have, one where if there…
Putting the *backward* in backward compatibility (2006/11/20)
…hat they do the same, either the way we did with FindNLSString (not even decorating the name with a "W") or the way the Shell team did with StrCmpLogicalW (a "W" decoration), no "A" version is being provided? So, the folks who created Visual Studio a…
Sometimes in the future 'ANSI' is really going to be unsupported! (2006/10/24)
…hat they do the same, either the way we did with FindNLSString (not even decorating the name with a "W") or the way the Shell team did with StrCmpLogicalW (a "W" decoration), no "A" version is being provided. Anyway, we now hit the final problem, whi…
What would it mean to internationalize StrCmpLogicalW? (2006/10/02)
…ordinals according to their value; something like that would at the very least require some AI to be implemented by the shell team, if you think of the English one [1 or a person], Dutch een [1 or indefinite article], or French un(e) [idem]. And skip…
It's not my imagination; that function is ignoring me! (2006/08/24)
There is an alias at Microsoft that is the front line for the Shell team, the one place where the important issues like build breaks and blocking issues get brought up. Since even within Micro…
Give me a break [Char] ! (2006/06/21)
Over on the Shell team, Jeff Miller is one of those very cool developers who knows how to get stuff done. And I am not just saying that becaus…
Does it make sense to have 'Case' more accessible? (2006/05/28)
…obviously be problenatic. As luck would have it, the team that has to think about issues with this type of scope -- the Shell team -- has a few members who read this blog. So I can say that I have passed on the idea by even having this blog post! Tho…
Invariant vs. Ordinal, the third (2006/05/24)
…ris Guzak. And at least two people divined that he was the 'Mike' I credited in this post for his help with sublassing, Shell team style. He has done a lot of other cool stuff too, but one of the very interesting jobs he has as an Architect on Shell …
New in Windows Vista: updates to clock and calendar (2005/12/21)
…mail responses to these two posts from various people on my team here in Redmond, in Ireland, and from the folks on the Shell team who wondered if I was aware of the efforts to support things a bit more effectively in Vista. I was! It is just that it…
Knock knock! Who's there? Kana! Kana Who? (2005/06/01)
You Kana wonder how we order Japanese strings? :-) Some time yesterday, one of the testers over on the Shell team was curious about how collation works for the Japanese alphabet. The discussion was an interesting one, so I thought I …
Backcompat is the father of the NLS APIs (2005/03/06)
…his conversation I had to meet with her in the evening after a day full of meetings that included an architect from the Shell team and a VP of something or other. I had seen the movie Head Office where the chairman of the company liked to review indi…
Why/how MSLU came to be, and more (2005/02/12)
…nd also the one who came up with just about every internal and external name we had) Mike (assistance with subclassing, Shell team style) Gerardo (who has forgotten more about window management and user messaging than most people will ever know) Barr…
What is up with number sorting? (2005/01/05)
… Mom: <shakes head> It just makes no sense to me, dear. And the outrageous thing is that she is actually right. Now the Shell team at Microsoft is pretty amazing (and not just the famous ones like Raymond Chen). There are those who whine when things …
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