Programming Windows

At the Professional Developers Conference (PDC) 2005, Bill Gates had noted that Microsoft didn’t hold…

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

When Steve Jobs returned to Apple in the late 1990s, he initially focused on saving…

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…

In 2006, Apple started a TV advertising campaign called “Get a Mac” that pitted hapless…

Microsoft’s revenues had long been dominated by Windows and products that required Windows, like Office.…

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…

There is an incredible moment in the September 2005 Microsoft reorg that bears scrutiny given…

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

On September 20, 2005, Microsoft announced a corporate reorganization that would see Windows lead Jim…

I was on vacation with my family in Stowe, Vermont in July 2005 when I…

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…

On August 27, 2004, Microsoft group vice president Jim Allchin told employees that the company…