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		yuhong on June 4, 2018 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Microsoft Is Said to Have Agreed to Acquire GitHub I wonder if pre-acquisition Skype was one of the hardest software the Windows team had to deal with. For example, at one point they used SYSENTER directly to make system calls!

Hendrikto on June 4, 2018 [–]

Do you have a source for this? I enjoy reading about horrible software.

yuhong on June 4, 2018 | | [–]

For SYSENTER: https://www.virtualbox.org/ticket/1710

Another example: https://www.pagetable.com/?p=27

This is just what is public.

hestefisk on June 4, 2018 | | [–]

Source? Skype was always quite cross platform imho.

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