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Programming Windows: Microsoft and Java (Premium)

Microsoft wasted little time usurping the Java platform and creating Windows-only Java technologies that angered…

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Programming Windows: Internet Strategy Workshop (Premium)

December 7, 1995 was another day that would live in infamy. For Netscape and any…

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Programming Windows: Hello, JavaScript (Premium)

JavaScript was created as a simple interpreted scripting language that would turn the web into…

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Programming Windows: The Internet Tidal Wave (Premium)

After ignoring the Internet threat for years, Bill Gates finally decided to “embrace and extend”…

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Programming Windows: Netscape Navigator and JavaScript (Premium)

A boldly innovative startup called Netscape understood that the web was a platform that could…

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Programming Windows: Cairo, a Road Not Taken (Premium)

In this sidebar, Microsoft’s planned successor to NT was a challenge that was too complex…

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Programming Windows: Hello, Java (Premium)

Let's quickly say hello to Java, the programming language and runtime environment that would go…

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Programming Windows: Java (Premium)

Sun’s Java programming language and runtime environment were perfect for the Internet. And an existential…

Microsoft Issues Major Update to Windows Terminal

It’s still very much in beta, but the new Windows Terminal received a major update…

MSDN Magazine Ends in November

Microsoft announced this week that it will stop publishing MSDN Magazine in November after a…

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Programming Windows: Marvel (Premium)

Thanks to the stratospheric success of Windows in the 1990s, Microsoft was initially blind to…

Microsoft to Disable VBScript in IE 11 in Windows 7 and 8.x

Continuing a years-long push to phase out its insecure legacy technologies, Microsoft has announced a…

GitHub Restricts Developers in Iran and Syria Following U.S. Sanctions

GitHub is restricting developers from Iran, Syria, and Crimea following new restrictions placed by the…

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Programming Windows: COM (Premium)

Inspired by deficiencies in DDE and OLE 1.0, the Component Object Model (COM) was a…

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Programming Windows: Hello, OLE 2.0 (Premium)

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows with inter-process communications capabilities based on OLE.

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Programming Windows: OLE (Premium)

Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) brought compound document capabilities to Windows, starting in version 3.0.

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