I don't remember the specific article, but it was probably written by Raymond Chen on his “The Old New Thing” blog.

Edit:

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/

http://blogs.msdn.com/b/oldnewthing/archive/2012/12/18/10378... — pinball

I can't find the Photoshop article with only a minute's googling, sorry.