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Programming Windows: OLE (Premium)

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

Microsoft Is Slowly Moving Away From the Windows Defender Branding

Latest builds of Windows 10 20H1 introduces the Microsoft Defender brand for Microsoft Defender Antivirus…

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Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium)

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

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Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium)

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

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Programming Windows: IBM Defends the Original PC (Premium)

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

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Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium)

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

Microsoft Tests Gears 5 Multiplayer

Microsoft has begun a public beta test of some of the multiplayer game modes that…

Microsoft Releases Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 18941 (20H1)

Windows Insiders in the Fast ring received a new pre-release build of Windows 10 version…

Microsoft Releases New Windows 10 19H2 Build to Some Insiders

Microsoft starts testing its new controlled feature rollout system in Windows 10 19H2 by introducing…

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Programming Windows: A Quick Progress Report (Premium)

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

Microsoft is Now Pushing Windows 10 1903 on 1803 Users

Microsoft announced today that those still running Windows 10 version 1803 will now be offered…

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Programming Windows: MFC (Premium)

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

Microsoft Announces New Xbox Game Pass Titles

Microsoft has revealed the Xbox Game Pass titles it is adding to the service during…

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Programming Windows: NT Everywhere (Premium)

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

Hands-On with the Lenovo IdeaPad S940

Lenovo’s IdeaPad S940 is a premium small, thin, and light laptop with high-end components and…

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Programming Windows: The Windows NT Death March (Premium)

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

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