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 and working with Microsoft’s previous-generation developer…

Originally called COOL, for C++ Object-Oriented Language, this new language would very closely resemble Java.

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

On June 22, 2000, Microsoft co-founder and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the .NET…

With Sun suing to block Microsoft’s extensions to Java, the software giant decided to create…

With Microsoft's legal losses mounting in its U.S. antitrust case, the software giant suffered from…

Sun was the more powerful adversary, but Microsoft’s strategy against it was consistent with what…

During a month’s long mediation process in U.S. v. Microsoft, developer documentation became a key…

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

Microsoft first came to the attention to regulators a decade before its celebrated and vilified…

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

When Microsoft announced that the oft-delayed Windows NT 5.0 would be renamed to Windows 2000,…

It’s not exactly a road not taken, as each of its constituent parts did come…

With Windows NT 5.0 delayed again and again, Microsoft didn’t notice yet another competitor nipping…

Two years into its incredible embrace of the Internet, Bill Gates became convinced that the…