Programming Windows

I decided to port .NETpad from Visual Basic to C# in order to get up…

For much of the past year, I’ve been researching Microsoft’s previous-generation developer technologies, in part…

In 1996, Anders Hejlsberg, the genius responsible for Turbo Pascal, Object Pascal, and Delphi, left…

Anders Hejlsberg has been doing the impossible since his first foray into programming language and…

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson followed up the early April 2000 release of his damning Conclusions…

In February 1999, just months after Microsoft shipped a sophisticated new version of its Visual…

At a regularly scheduled quarterly meeting with Microsoft’s board of directors in early 1998, the…

When Microsoft pivoted to embrace the Internet, it quickly identified Java and Netscape Navigator as…

On April 4, 2000, U.S. District Court Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson issued his Conclusions of…

Heading into the late 1990s, Microsoft sought to consolidate its developer languages and tools into…

In 1969, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) sued International Business Machines (IBM) for abusing…

We’re now three months and over 50 articles into the Programming Windows series. Here’s another…

On October 27, 1998, Microsoft announced that the oft-delayed Windows NT 5.0 would be renamed…

With Windows once again at the heart of Microsoft’s strategy, the software giant assembled its…

“God, how deep is this crater?” Jim Allchin asked. He wasn’t being rhetorical: After winning…

In early 1997, Microsoft was preparing to release Internet Explorer 4.0, through which it would…