I Worked on the Windows Start Menu!

Опубликовано: 10 Февраль 2025
на канале: Dave's Garage

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UPDATE: This only shipped in the NTSUR release, as far as I can now tell. I've confirmed with team members that I'm not crazy, I did write and we did ship the code I describe in this episode, but it was ultimately replaced circa NT4 with bitmaps!

So they wound up doing exactly what I was trying to avoid (a bitmap per SKU per language) but it works!
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How does the Start Menu paint? Find out in this insider tale of the Windows Start Menu. For my book on the spectrum, see: https://amzn.to/3XLJ8kY

As noted in the video, the Start Menu was a Windows95 feature before being ported to what is "Windows" today; Dave was responsible for making it operate and paint under Windows NT/XP/2000 and later.

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