This article is amazing.
There are also various references to idiots and morons, some external, some within Microsoft. The file private\ntos\rtl\heap.c, which dates from 1989, tells us
// The specific idiot in this case is Office95, which likes
// to free a random pointer when you start Word95 from a desktop
// shortcut.
Indeed the development of Windows 2000 was an odyssey (local copy if the link is unavailable)
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