Programming Windows

VBScript was best used with the IIS web server and Active Server Pages (ASP) to…

With ActiveX, Microsoft would “activate the Internet” by bringing its COM technologies to the web.

HTML is a simple markup language that describes web documents. But it’s evolved into a…

Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Findings of Fact in U.S. v. Microsoft focused largely on Microsoft’s…

In this sidebar, Microsoft once planned three Windows NT versions, called Asteroid, NepTune, and Triton.…

Microsoft created Internet Explorer to beat back the threat from Netscape Navigator. It would soon…

Windows 95 wasn’t as sophisticated as NT, but it ran well on mainstream PCs and…

Visual J++ is a historical footnote today, but it’s fascinating to go back and see…

Microsoft wasted little time usurping the Java platform and creating Windows-only Java technologies that angered…

December 7, 1995 was another day that would live in infamy. For Netscape and any…

JavaScript was created as a simple interpreted scripting language that would turn the web into…

After ignoring the Internet threat for years, Bill Gates finally decided to “embrace and extend”…

A boldly innovative startup called Netscape understood that the web was a platform that could…

In this sidebar, Microsoft’s planned successor to NT was a challenge that was too complex…

Let's quickly say hello to Java, the programming language and runtime environment that would go…

Sun’s Java programming language and runtime environment were perfect for the Internet. And an existential…