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A brief history of Windows scroll bar shortcuts

Raymond Chen recounts Win32 scroll-bar basics, the Windows 7 right-click “Scroll Here” menu, and the little-known Shift+click jump—then notes how Electron/Chromium scrollbars mostly lost the context menu.

Essay · Programming · History · User Experience · Windows

Bill Gates tries to install Movie Maker

This newsletter post surfaces a 2003 internal email in which Bill Gates tried to download Windows Movie Maker from Microsoft's own website and found the process so broken, confusing, and slow that he could not complete it. Sent to senior engineering executives, the email became a point-by-point critique of Windows usability and Microsoft's web properties.

Newsletter · Tech History · Microsoft · Windows · Usability