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Programming Windows: Civil War (Premium)
In early 1997, Microsoft was preparing to release Internet Explorer 4.0, through which it would fully integrate the web browser […]

Programming Windows: Hello, VBScript (Premium)
We’ve already looked at client-side scripting—that is, scripts that in a web page that are executed by the browser—in Programming […]

Programming Windows: ActiveX (Premium)
Microsoft announced ActiveX—or as it was originally called, ActiveX Technologies—in March 1996 as a way to bring so-called “active content” […]

Programming Windows: Hello, HTML
Programming Windows: Hello, HTML – Thurrott.com Premium HTML—the Hypertext Markup Language—is a simple markup language that describes the structure and […]

Programming Windows: Findings of Fact (Premium)
Judge Thomas Penfield Jackson’s Findings of Fact in U.S. v. Microsoft focused largely on Microsoft’s reaction to Netscape. The post […]

Programming Windows: More Roads Not Taken (Premium)
Programming Windows: More Roads Not Taken (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Microsoft chief scientist Nathan Myhrvold opined in an internal email […]

Programming Windows: Internet Explorer (Premium)
Programming Windows: Internet Explorer (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium (Fun aside: Microsoft did license BookLink’s browser technology for a Microsoft Word […]

Programming Windows: Windows 95 (Premium)
Programming Windows: Windows 95 (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium The success of Windows 3.0 and 3.1 had catapulted one of Microsoft’s […]