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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 […]

Microsoft Releases Xamarin.Forms 4.0
The latest version of Microsoft’s Xamarin.Forms cross-platform UI toolkit for developers provides a simpler way to build mobile apps. In […]

Google Clarifies What’s Happening to “Works with Nest”
Google’s surprise announcement that it would replace its Home brand with Nest was well-received. Then all hell broke loose. The […]

You Can Create Flutter Apps on Chrome OS
Thanks to its Linux compatibility, you can now write software on Chrome OS. Including, apparently, using Flutter and Android Studio. […]

Windows 10 + PWAs: A Progress Report
In October 2017, I spoke with Microsoft’s Jeff Burtoft and Aaron Gustafson about the company’s plans to bring Progressive Web […]