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In February 2001, I headed to Redmond, Washington for the Whistler Desktop Beta 2 Reviewers Workshop. And boy, was I in for a surprise.

On January 6, 2001, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates delivered the keynote address at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas.

Microsoft should have ended the year 2000 on a triumphant note, but an economic downturn and internal worries about .NET made for a dour holiday.

Microsoft had to deliver on its sweeping promises for .NET and a new generation of Windows. It would fail on both counts.

While most of Microsoft’s public .NET pronouncements involved web services, .NET also brought a major upgrade to Windows app development.

In 2000, Microsoft was working to modernize Visual Basic for the .NET era and make its capabilities available to C# as well.

With .NET 6 now available, I’ve been looking over the four versions of .NETpad that I created a few years back to see how they can be modernized.

Microsoft planned to release Whistler and Blackcomb back-to-back to usher in the .NET era and rebrand Windows to Windows.NET.

The Windows Developer team wanted to celebrate the New Year by tweeting some software code to its followers. Unfortunately, the code doesn’t work.

Developers curious about the future of the Microsoft developer stack filed into PDC 2000 in Orlando to learn more about .NET in July 2000.

.NET wasn’t the result of a years-long strategy. Instead, it was the culmination of three separate internal initiatives to improve the developer stack.

After a two-year wait, I’m happy to announce that I’m returning to my Programming Windows series and will pick up where I left off.

Swift Playgrounds 4 lets anyone build iPhone and iPad apps right on an iPad and submit them directly to the Apple App Store.

Microsoft revealed that it will make Windows Terminal the default command-line experience in Windows 11 sometime next year.

Google announced the availability of Flutter 2.8, which adds the first stable release of its Flame 2D game engine and other improvements.

Today, Google announced the first beta version of Android 12L, a new version of the mobile platform aimed at large-screen devices.

Microsoft has quietly finalized the Windows App SDK, which seeks to reunite Windows desktop and mobile developers.

The ECS LIVA Mini Box QC710 Desktop is a low-end, Snapdragon-powered Windows 10 on ARM mini-PC that can be upgraded to Windows 11.

Microsoft announced today that Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 are now generally available for developers.

As part of its messaging about post-Ignite learning opportunities, Microsoft revealed that it is moving Channel 9 into Microsoft Learn.

At its Ignite virtual conference this week, Microsoft announced that Test Base for Microsoft 365 is now generally available.

In a bizarre bit of timing---Visual Studio 2022 and .NET 6 are launching next week---Microsoft’s GitHub CEO is leaving the company.

In a stunning example of how regulatory action can drive major change in Big Tech, Google will comply with a new South Korean law.

With the .NET 6 release looming, Microsoft made a critical faux pas that the open-source world jumped on immediately.

Apple has made three changes to its App Store policies for developers related to an August settlement with U.S.-based developers.

Unlike Apple, Google has seen the light: It is dramatically lowering the fees that it charges for subscription and media apps in its Play Store for Android.

This week, Microsoft released a new web-based version of its Visual Studio Code Integrated Development Environment (IDE).