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Programming Windows: Java (Premium)
Programming Windows: Java (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium In early 1991, engineers at Sun Microsystems created a small team to discover […]
Microsoft Issues Major Update to Windows Terminal
It’s still very much in beta, but the new Windows Terminal received a major update this past week with many […]
MSDN Magazine Ends in November
Microsoft announced this week that it will stop publishing MSDN Magazine in November after a 19-year run. “MSDN Magazine originally […]
Programming Windows: Marvel (Premium)
Thanks to the stratospheric success of Windows in the 1990s, Microsoft was initially blind to the biggest threat it would […]
Microsoft to Disable VBScript in IE 11 in Windows 7 and 8.x
Continuing a years-long push to phase out its insecure legacy technologies, Microsoft has announced a new milestone for VBScript. This […]
GitHub Restricts Developers in Iran and Syria Following U.S. Sanctions
GitHub users in Iran, Syria, and Crimea had access restricted to their own code over the weekend. The reason? U.S. […]
Programming Windows: COM (Premium)
Programming Windows: COM (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Dynamic Data Exchange (DDE) and the first version of its successor, Object Linking […]
Programming Windows: Hello, OLE 2.0
In the early 1990s, Microsoft evolved Windows to include component-based inter-process communications capabilities such as OLE Automation. This was an […]