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Programming Windows: Marvel (Premium)

In the 1990s, Microsoft experienced a level of growth that was unprecedented in personal computing…

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Programming Windows: COM (Premium)

Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and the first version of its successor, Object Linking and Embedding…

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Programming Windows: Hello, OLE 2.0 (Premium)

In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows to include component-based inter-process communications capabilities such as…

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Programming Windows: OLE (Premium)

Most readers probably remember the introduction of the original iPhone, when Steve Jobs famously teased…

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Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium)

As noted in Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium), Microsoft introduced a technology called Dynamic…

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Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium)

As noted in Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium), the BASIC programming language was created in…

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Programming Windows: IBM Defends the Original PC (Premium)

In Programming Windows: Wintel (Premium), I described how IBM decided to enter the personal computing…

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Programming Windows: Clipboard and DDE (Premium)

Graphical user interfaces (GUIs) were originally derided by the tech elite, who referred to users…

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Programming Windows: A Quick Progress Report (Premium)

6 weeks ago, I set out to tell the history of Windows from a different…

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Programming Windows: MFC (Premium)

While Microsoft had supported Windows application development in Microsoft C and other compatible C compilers…

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Programming Windows: NT Everywhere (Premium)

“NT EVERYWHERE! NT EVERYWHERE!” the crowd of mostly male Microsofties chanted, inadvertently channeling a Nazi…

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Programming Windows: The Windows NT Death March (Premium)

In March 1991, the NT team hit a new milestone: Dog food came to the…

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Programming Windows: NT (Premium)

In Showstopper! The Breakneck Race to Create Windows NT and the Next Generation at Microsoft,…

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Programming Windows: Hello, MFC (Premium)

Before diving into the Microsoft Foundation Class library, I thought it might be a good…

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Programming Windows: Object-Oriented Programming

Developers creating Windows API-based applications in the C programming language faced many uphill battles, from…

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Programming Windows: Hello, C++ (Premium)

C++ was created by Bjarne Stroustrup as an object-oriented extension to the C programming language.…

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