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Dave Plummer, a Microsoft veteran, shared a story about porting the Format dialog from Windows 95 to Windows NT. What was intended as a temporary solution ended up lasting almost three decades. ....
The Format drive dialog box was only supposed to be temporary in Windows NT. A software developer has recounted how it came to be nearly 30 years ago. ....