It's been seven years since the Y2K crisis. It seems we may have another crisis coming up which some developers may not have thought of yet. If you're using standard build numbers from the PE headers, you're using something like: Major.Minor.Build...

During the Visual Studio 2005 product cycle, we realized we needed a tool to wipe out the final released bits on a customer's machine in case things went wrong. We published a tool that did that for CTPs and Betas but not for the final RTM bits. I...