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In the 1990s, Microsoft experienced a level of growth that was unprecedented in personal computing…
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Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and the first version of its successor, Object Linking and Embedding…
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In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows to include component-based inter-process communications capabilities such as…
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Most readers probably remember the introduction of the original iPhone, when Steve Jobs famously teased…
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As noted in Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium), Microsoft introduced a technology called Dynamic…
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As noted in Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium), the BASIC programming language was created in…
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In Programming Windows: Wintel (Premium), I described how IBM decided to enter the personal computing…
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Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) were originally derided by the tech elite, who referred to users…
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6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different…
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While Microsoft had supported Windows application development in Microsoft C and other compatible C compilers…
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“NT EVERYWHERE! NT EVERYWHERE!” the crowd of mostly male Microsofties chanted, inadvertently channeling a Nazi…
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In March 1991, the NT team hit a new milestone: Dog food came to the…
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In Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft,…
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Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good…
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Developers creating Windows API-based applications in the C programming language faced many uphill battles, from…
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C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an object-oriented extension to the C programming language.…