Microsoft Removed Pinball from Windows Due to Unfixable Bug

Microsoft engineer Raymond Chen revealed why the popular game Pinball was removed from Windows. The reason, surprisingly, wasn't due to legal issues but a 64-bit bug that nobody could fix in time.

The issue arose during the porting of Windows XP to 64-bit, and the team couldn't afford to spend days studying the code to figure out what was causing the problem. Chen's team made the decision to cut Pinball from the new version of Windows.

Chen has spoken about this incident in the past, stating that they 'couldn't afford to spend days studying the code trying to figure out what obscure floating point rounding error was causing collision detection to fail.'