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

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) – Thurrott.com Premium Microsoft chief scientist Nathan Myhrvold opined in an internal email […]

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

There were two versions of Visual J++, Microsoft’s Java developer environment, Visual J++ 1.0, which shipped as part of Developer […]

Programming Windows: Microsoft and Java (Premium) – Thurrott.com Premium Fearing that Microsoft would try to undermine Java by creating incompatible […]