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I Once Appeared in the Old New Thing


I'm a pretty humble guy, so most people aren't aware of this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on his classic Windows blog, The Old New Thing.

I’m a pretty humble guy, so most people don’t know this extremely impressive fact about me: Raymond Chen once mentioned me on The Old New Thing, the classic Windows development blog. Or I could pretend I never had the idea to put specific numbers into BitLocker’s error messages and focus on other ways to make the configuration easier. At Microsoft, on their flagship product, how was there no standard way for developers to reference constant values in both error messages and C++ code?

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