18.1.1999
Lockergnomie John Foote knows of an easier way to see what kind of files Microsoft has stored in its FTP software library. Fire up IE4, Netscape, or your FTP client and download: ftp://ftp.microsoft.com/Softlib/index.txt -- this isn't a listing for every single file Microsoft has, but there's a lot of classic patches and documentation to be found here. Once you are viewing the file (in any given application), you should be able to perform a search for certain keywords. Keep it stored on your computer for future reference, too (although a new version might become available over time).