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.NET Core 3.0 Hits Release Candidate Phase

Microsoft has announced the release of .NET Core 3.0 Release Candidate (RC1), a near-final version…

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Programming Windows: Another Quick Progress Report (Premium)

We’re now three months and over 50 articles into the Programming Windows series. Here’s another…

Flutter 1.9 Adds Support for macOS Catalina and iOS 13

Google announced the release of Flutter 1.9 and that support for web apps has been…

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Programming Windows: Windows DNA (Premium)

It’s not exactly a road not taken, as each of its constituent parts did come…

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Programming Windows: Happy Halloween (Premium)

With Windows NT 5.0 delayed again and again, Microsoft didn’t notice yet another competitor nipping…

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Programming Windows: Civil War (Premium)

Two years into its incredible embrace of the Internet, Bill Gates became convinced that the…

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Programming Windows: Hello, VBScript (Premium)

VBScript was best used with the IIS web server and Active Server Pages (ASP) to…

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Programming Windows: ActiveX (Premium)

With ActiveX, Microsoft would “activate the Internet” by bringing its COM technologies to the web.

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Programming Windows: Hello, HTML

HTML is a simple markup language that describes web documents. But it’s evolved into a…

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Programming Windows: Findings of Fact (Premium)

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Findings of Fact in U.S. v. Microsoft focused largely on Microsoft’s…

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Programming Windows: More Roads Not Taken (Premium)

In this sidebar, Microsoft once planned three Windows NT versions, called Asteroid, NepTune, and Triton.…

Google Ships Android Studio 3.5

Unlike with previous releases, Android Studio 3.5 focuses on performance and product quality, and not…

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Programming Windows: Internet Explorer (Premium)

Microsoft created Internet Explorer to beat back the threat from Netscape Navigator. It would soon…

Microsoft to Acquire jClarity

Microsoft announced today that it will acquire jClarity to help drive increased performance for Java…

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Programming Windows: Windows 95 (Premium)

Windows 95 wasn’t as sophisticated as NT, but it ran well on mainstream PCs and…

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Programming Windows: Hello, Visual J++ (Premium)

Visual J++ is a historical footnote today, but it’s fascinating to go back and see…

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