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What really annoys me these days is that if you search for a Win32 API on Google, it will always come up with the -A variant, not the -W variant. I don't know if they've got something weird in their robots.txt or what, but I find it bizarre that an API whose guidelines desire developers to use the -W variants in all greenfield code, instead returns the legacy APIs by default.

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They did a strange reorg of the API docs at one point. Not only does it now have functions split by A/W (mostly unnecessarily), it also groups them by header file instead of feature reference, which is kind of annoying. It used to be just that the function doc would note at the bottom if A/W variants were present and they were grouped under Functions in the feature/subsystem area of the docs tree.

Yeah, that new content management system is awful too -- it doesn't grok preprocessor stuff at all, so sometimes you get nonsensical struct definitions, kernel-mode structs instead of user-mode structs, etc.

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