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Microsoft Acquires Code Review Firm for GitHub

One year after its blockbuster $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition, Microsoft has acquired Pull Panda to…

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Programming Windows: Pre-History (Premium)

To fully understand why Windows was designed the way it was, we must go back…

Android Studio Will Be 64-Bit Only Going Forward

Google announced today that the future versions of Android Studio and its Android emulators will…

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Apple WWDC 2019: An Analysis (Premium)

Thanks to a bit of downtime, I can finally weigh in on Apple’s recent announcements…

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Programming Windows: A Timeline (Premium)

In 2020, Windows will celebrate its 35th anniversary. Here’s a rough timeline of each release,…

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Programming Windows, the Series (Premium)

I’m starting a new series of articles that will examine how Windows application development has…

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Microsoft Loomed Large Over WWDC (Premium)

Microsoft quietly had an outsized impact on the WWDC 2019 announcements. Not bad for a…

Microsoft Previews New Visual Studio Code Icons

Microsoft finalises new Visual Studio Code icon for Windows, Mac, and Linux, coming to the…

GitHub Now Lets You Financially Support Contributors, Introduces New Enterprise Features

GitHub is testing a new Sponsors feature that lets you financially support creators and contributors…

Microsoft Releases Xamarin.Forms 4.0

The latest version of Microsoft’s Xamarin.Forms cross-platform UI toolkit for developers provides a simpler way…

Google Clarifies What’s Happening to “Works with Nest”

Google’s surprise announcement that it would replace its Home brand with Nest was well-received. Then…

You Can Create Flutter Apps on Chrome OS

You can now write software on Chrome OS. Including, apparently, Android apps made with Flutter…

Windows 10 + PWAs: A Progress Report

In October 2017, I spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s…

Microsoft Confirms UWP is Not the Future of Windows Apps

As I predicted, Microsoft is effectively killing UWP by ensuring that all its capabilities are…

Google Pushes Chrome OS to Developers

Chrome OS and the Chromebooks on which it runs are now sophisticated enough for web…

Google Brings Flutter to the Web in Technical Preview

Google had previously announced plans to bring Flutter, its cross-platform mobile development framework, to the…

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