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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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