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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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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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