Microsoft are a disgrace when it comes to preserving web content. Not only do the URLs constantly break, and the useful comments get deleted, and the post formatting ruined, but the text itself is corrupted via Unicode mis-conversion.

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20141124-00/?p=43553

Can't even see a way to report the issue.

Ironic the web team's mishandling of Unicode has ruined an article that is itself about handling Unicode.

That page used to be at https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20141124-00/?p=43553 which if you go to it now just gives you a list of all his posts, not that specific post.

Was it necessary to rename every MSDN blog URL for about the 100th time and break every link to every post?

FFS. Such clueless clowns.

It's made even worse by their URL scheme not having any words from the title in the URLs, making it harder to know what to search for to re-find the article.

But it's just so ridiculous to have to search for an article you already have a URL for in the first place, when the post is only a few years old, and the huge company hosting it (sadly) has not gone out of business or anything catastrophic like that.