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Microsoft wiping all their old blog posts and documentation is a modern tragedy

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I also hate how there's a new URL format every few years on devblogs, and no one bothers writing a script to fix the links. It's practically impossible to read Raymond's older posts without Wayback Machine

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Older than what? We've archived all of his work dating back to 2003 vx-underground.org/the_old_new_th

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The links in these (fairly inconvenient) PDFs are just as broken as on the source. I picked "Defrauding the WHQL driver certification process" at random and clicked the "one of my earlier entries" link at the start, and was met with this:

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This seems to be a problem with new digital content teams. No appreciation of the redirect.

Microsoft is a small business and cannot afford to have a few devs learn the 301/302 HTTP code concept.