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Visual J++ is a historical footnote today, but it’s fascinating to go back and see…

Microsoft wasted little time usurping the Java platform and creating Windows-only Java technologies that angered…

Happy Friday! Here is another round of questions and (attempted) answers to start off the…

December 7, 1995 was another day that would live in infamy. For Netscape and any…

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After ignoring the Internet threat for years, Bill Gates finally decided to “embrace and extend”…

A boldly innovative startup called Netscape understood that the web was a platform that could…

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I’m back from The Netherlands, a little bleary-eyed and ready for a weekend of rest.…

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This week’s Samsung event included a major Microsoft presence that makes the Note 10 launch…

If you want a Surface Phone, it's not coming from Microsoft and it will launch…

Sun’s Java programming language and runtime environment were perfect for the Internet. And an existential…

A recent Wirecutter comparison of sub-$500 laptops highlights a big problem for Microsoft: There are…

Thanks to the stratospheric success of Windows in the 1990s, Microsoft was initially blind to…