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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 […]
Programming Windows: OLE (Premium)
Object Linking and Embedding (OLE) brought compound document capabilities to Windows, starting in version 3.0. The post Programming Windows: OLE […]
Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium)
Programming Windows: Hello, DDE (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium DDE was barely documented at first, and it was only natively supported […]
Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium)
Programming Windows: BASIC Inventors Take on Gates, Microsoft (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium As noted in Programming Windows: Microsoft Basic (Premium), […]
Programming Windows: IBM Defends the Original PC (Premium)
In Programming Windows: Wintel (Premium), I described how IBM decided to enter the personal computing market in 1980 and did […]