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In January 2004, Joseph Jones and I interviewed Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek, two of…

In 2004, Microsoft finally realized the inevitable: Longhorn wasn’t just running late, it was impossible.…

When I made the C#/Windows Forms version of .NETpad available on GitHub in late January,…

Microsoft wants users of Visual Studio 2012, Visual Studio 2017, and Visual Studio 2019 to…

20 years ago today, Microsoft launched the first version of .NET alongside Visual Studio .NET,…

For developers, it was a unique pleasure seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson write Longhorn…

Jim Allchin’s PDC 2003 keynote, called “a lap around Longhorn,” focused on the nuts and…

At 8:00 am on October 27, 2003, Microsoft opened the doors to Hall A at…

Microsoft quietly revealed that it will ship Windows App SDK 1.1 by mid-year, with multi-window…

The Longhorn leaks and rumors continued into 2003. But the longer the schedule was pushed…

In February 2003, I had the chance to interview Microsoft senior vice president Brian Valentine…

Tensions ran high in January 2003 as Microsoft built Windows .NET Server 2003 each day,…

Microsoft revealed that it is temporarily disabling an app installer protocol in Windows 10/11 to…

In researching the Longhorn-era WinFX technologies, it occurred to me that I needed to take…

In this sidebar, I look back on the five Tablet PCs that I traveled with…

Windows had a busy 2002 between Windows XP Service Pack 1 and the new Media…