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Programming Windows: Connected, Clear, Confident (Premium)

In mid-2005, Microsoft rebranded Longhorn as Windows Vista and set out to deliver monthly builds…

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Programming Windows: Redmond, Start Your Photocopiers (Premium)

In the years since Steve Jobs had returned to Apple, he had rarely missed an…

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Programming Windows: XP Reloaded (Premium)

Despite the perpetual Longhorn delays, Microsoft decided in early 2004 to forego a new version…

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Programming Windows: Reset (Premium)

In August 2004, Microsoft quietly reset Longhorn development and started over with a new codebase.…

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Programming Windows: Windows XP Service Pack 2 Interview (Premium)

Readers will remember Todd Wanke as the guy who ran Microsoft's War Room for Windows…

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Programming Windows: Bob Muglia Interview (Premium)

In May 2004, I interviewed Bob Muglia, Microsoft senior vice president of the Windows Server…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Coming to Terms with the Status Bar (Premium)

In an ideal world, .NETpad’s status bar would adapt its layout similarly to the real…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Themes Bug (Premium)

Here’s another quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly identify…

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Programming Windows: Springboard (Premium)

With Longhorn delayed yet again, Microsoft started working to bring some of its core security…

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Ask Paul: February 18 (Premium)

Happy Friday, and welcome to another mammoth installment of Ask Paul with a great set…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fix the Maximize Bug (Premium)

Here’s a quick fix for one of the bugs in .NETpad: It doesn’t correctly remember…

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Programming Windows: Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek Interview (Premium)

In January 2004, Joseph Jones and I interviewed Hillel Cooperman and Tjeerd Hoek, two of…

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Programming Windows: It’s Not Going to Work (Premium)

In 2004, Microsoft finally realized the inevitable: Longhorn wasn’t just running late, it was impossible.…

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The WinForms Notepad Project (2022): Fork Me (Premium)

When I made the C#/Windows Forms version of .NETpad available on GitHub in late January,…

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Programming Windows: Hello, WinFX, Avalon, and XAML (Premium)

For developers, it was a unique pleasure seeing Don Box and Chris Anderson write Longhorn…

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Programming Windows: A Lap Around Longhorn (Premium)

Jim Allchin’s PDC 2003 keynote, called “a lap around Longhorn,” focused on the nuts and…

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