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Microsoft Acquires Code Review Firm for GitHub
One year after announcing its blockbuster $7.5 billion GitHub acquisition, Microsoft has acquired Pull Panda to bolster the developer service. […]

Programming Windows: Pre-History (Premium)
To fully understand why Windows was designed the way it was, we must go back in time. To before the […]

Android Studio Will Be 64-Bit Only Going Forward
Google announced today that the future versions of Android Studio and its Android emulators will only support 64-bit OSes. This […]

Programming Windows: A Timeline (Premium)
After obsessing over the idea of an open-ended “Programming Windows” series for months, I finally took a chance and published […]

Programming Windows, the Series (Premium)
I’m starting a new series of articles that will examine how Windows application development has evolved over the years. This […]

Microsoft Loomed Large Over WWDC (Premium)
Microsoft quietly had an outsized impact on the WWDC 2019 announcements. Not bad for a company that lost in mobile, […]

Microsoft Previews New Visual Studio Code Icons
Back in April of this year, Microsoft started previewing a new icon for Visual Studio Code. The company started working […]

GitHub Now Lets You Financially Support Contributors, Introduces New Enterprise Features
GitHub is announcing a bunch of new features on its platform. The company is introducing a new way of letting […]