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As I write this, we’re about two-thirds of the way through this year’s home swap,…

Happy Friday, and greetings from Hilversum, The Netherlands. This will be the last Ask Paul…

Chapter six brings together many of the major hurdles in the development of the Surface…

Inspired by deficiencies in DDE and OLE 1.0, the Component Object Model (COM) was a…

We’re in the third and final day of our annual European Heat Wave experience. So…

Google says that sales of its smartphones doubled YOY in the most recent quarter thanks…

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows with inter-process communications capabilities based on OLE.

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

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

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

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

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

Microsoft issued its fourth-quarter and full-year earnings for Fiscal Year 2019 last night. Let’s take…

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

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

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