why the fuck is this called "Word Count Summary Property" https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/word-count-summary

@whitequark the fuck

@gsuberland it's not a typo either

@gsuberland @whitequark did I just read

@whitequark my first thought is that it's some historical naming thing but I'm honestly grasping at straws

and even then, fucking rename it lol

@whitequark did... did they hijack the same backend metadata that explorer uses for columns? https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/win32/msi/summary-information-stream-property-set

@slab oh my god

@gsuberland @whitequark May be a similar thing to using PE timestamp fields for hashes (the name remained the same in that case too)?

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20240815-00/?p=110131

@whitequark Why are you so good at finding these

@samir i pay attention

@whitequark

the Word Count Summary property indicates the type of source file image. If this property is not present, it defaults to zero (0).

Oh, yes this is all very intuitive. Well done MS.

@whitequark You may be the only one.

@samir and people wonder why I despise genAI so much

@whitequark msi files are just repurposed office files -- https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/openspecs/office_file_formats/ms-oshared/87667163-ea1e-4d67-9eec-47cad74e8030

@typeswitch this is horrifying

@typeswitch @whitequark Yeah, they're OLE Compound files, because everything had to be when they were invented.