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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…

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

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

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

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

Using Dynamic Data Exchange was next to impossible unless you were using Visual Basic with…

In another sidebar, the inventors of BASIC had some choice words for Bill Gates, Microsoft,…

In this sidebar to the Programming Windows series, a key architect of the first IBM…

Early GUIs like Windows were easy to use, but they also provided advanced system-level features…

6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different…

MFC allowed C++ developers to quickly generate skeleton code for even the most complex of…