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After it finally shipped Windows NT, Microsoft spent the next five years steadily improving the…

Between 1991 and 1993, Microsoft dogfooded its own code and fought feature creep and bugs…

Before there was Windows NT, there was NT, a 32-bit portable operating system that would…

Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good…

OOPs! By the 1990s, Windows application developers were consumed by the move to Object-Oriented Programming,…

Say hello to C++, an object-oriented superset of C that is still one of the…

Before moving past Visual Basic classic, let’s take a look at how Microsoft evolved VB…

And now, a brief interlude while we ponder the personal computing coulda, shoulda been, Microsoft…

As a young technology enthusiast, I despised Microsoft and its inability to innovate. And then…

Visual Basic was instantly popular and its ease of use and suitability for application development…

Visual Basic was the right tool at the right time, and it was everything that…

While this article series focuses on Windows, Microsoft’s empire was initially built on an even…

In researching the history of Microsoft Basic, I realized I had forgotten something: We need…

Microsoft has quietly posted a new hub for all of its Insider programs called Microsoft…

As a fun preview for the next several articles in this series, here’s “hello, world”…

It's time to say goodbye to the Windows API, which was as hastily cobbled-together as…