Programming Windows

Microsoft revealed the Windows 7 desktop at PDC 2008, spent the next year delivering the…

Of the few developer innovations delivered with Windows 7, the new Scenic Ribbon and Jump…

In the same month that Microsoft launched Windows Vista for consumers, Apple launched a much…

After the first public demonstration of Windows 7 at PDC 2008, Steven Sinofsky ceded the…

Most didn’t appreciate it at the time, but the 2008 Professional Developers Conference (PDC) was…

Apple’s “Get a Mac” TV ad campaign reached new heights when they began attacking Longhorn…

In 2007 and 2008, Steven Sinofsky and this team prepared the follow-ups to Windows Vista:…

Though it was impacted by the same delays as Longhorn/Windows Vista, Longhorn Server targeted a…

While Microsoft struggled to make sense of Windows Longhorn in 2005/6, the Office team was…

The release of Windows Vista is now understood to be the time when Microsoft’s control…

On a cold morning in January 2006, I met with Microsoft co-president Jim Allchin, who…

With Jim Allchin teetering towards retirement, Microsoft finally shipped Windows Vista after several more delays…

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

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

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

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