Programming Windows

With the Windows XP launch behind it, Microsoft turned its attention to the future. This…

In March 1996, Steve Jobs experienced a professional nadir when he appeared on stage at…

While Windows XP didn’t deliver much in the way of .NET functionality, Microsoft had other…

Microsoft spent much of 2001 focused on getting Windows XP out the door, and it…

With Bill Gates’ triumphant keynote address at CES 2001 out of the way and the…

On January 6, 2001, Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates delivered the keynote address at the Consumer…

Microsoft should have ended the year 2000 on a triumphant note: after preparing its customers…

Despite its massive successes in the 1990s, Microsoft was always considered a third-rate technology company…

While most of Microsoft’s public .NET pronouncements involved web services, .NET also brought a major…

Approximately 6,000 developers streamed into the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Florida in mid-July…

Microsoft released new Windows versions at a torrid pace in the late 1990s, with two…

Developers curious about the future of the Microsoft developer stack filed into PDC 2000 in…

When Microsoft chairman Bill Gates belatedly revealed .NET in June 2000, he offered a vague…

After a two-year wait, I’m happy to announce that I’m returning to my Programming Windows…

Microsoft dragged its developer base into a losing battle against open source and open standards…

The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) isn’t particularly well-suited to traditional productivity applications. Naturally, I was…