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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…

Bill Gates fervently believed that Tablet PCs and their stylus-based handwriting capabilities together represented the…

Google announced today that its Flutter open-source app development toolkit now supports creating Windows apps.

With the weight of Microsoft’s security problems on his shoulders, Bill Gates delivered a CES…

With the Windows XP launch behind it, Microsoft turned its attention to the future. But…