Programming Windows

Looking back at Microsoft’s history from a software development perspective, I’m struck by how dedicated…

While the IBM PC and its follow-up, the hard drive-based PC XT, were huge successes,…

To understand why Visual Basic was such a sensation, consider again how horrible it was…

“In many ways, the Windows environment has been very hostile to the developer.” -- Microsoft…

Today, Microsoft is most closely identified by its Redmond, Washington campus and the market dominance…

In researching the history of Microsoft Basic, I realized I had forgotten something: We need…

Before discussing BASIC and Microsoft’s various versions of the language, I thought it would be…

At Build 2019, I surmised that Microsoft had killed the Universal Windows Platform (UWP), its…

As you may recall, creating a simple hello, world application in the C programming language…

The benefits of a graphical user interface (GUI) like Windows are well understood today, but…

In 1980, IBM undertook an uncharacteristically fast development process for its first personal computer, cannily…

The C programming language was created in the early 1970s by Dennis Ritchie, an engineer…

As noted previously, Windows 1.0 finally arrived in November 1985, two years after it was…

In the 1970s, the software wizards at Xerox Parc pioneered the future of computing by…

After obsessing over the idea of an open-ended “Programming Windows” series for months, I finally…

I’m starting a new series of articles that will examine how Windows application development has…