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

Heading into the weekend, I’m preparing for our trip next week to Amsterdam for this…

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…

Microsoft has been cheapening its flagship Windows platform with advertising for many years. It's trying…

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

Steve Jobs was a magical asshole, and Bill Gates created a terrible Microsoft culture that…

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…

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

After pointlessly making us wait for months to discover what Windows 10 version 19H2 was…

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

I start the morning the same way every day: Wake up, drink coffee, and read…