Microsoft

I recently ran into an article over at Ars Technica that contains the history of the Windows Start menu complete with screenshots of each major release of Windows, including a few beta versions.

April 27, 2025

A.I. is quite a controversial topic amongst developers, but do those who use it actually see an increase in productivity while working? This is my own experience with it.

April 7, 2025

In an effort to speed up TypeScript compilation, Microsoft has decided to rewrite the compiler to be a native application.

March 12, 2025

This is why the Windows 95 setup team didn’t just use the limited GUI options that were availble in MS-DOS for the setup application instead of three separate operating systems.

March 1, 2025

A little while ago, I stumbled upon a collection of photos taken from Microsoft’s office in Albuquerque, New Mexico in 1979.

February 15, 2025

Have you ever wondered why the Windows 95 setup seems to consist of three different types of UI? As it turns out, that is due to the fact that setup actually runs on three different operating systems.

November 23, 2024

Macs have been my primary computers for decades, but I have also had the occasional Windows PC. These are some screenshots from them.

October 15, 2024

Microsoft’s new version of Outlook for Windows has seen its fair share of criticism, but one omission is just shocking in 2024.

October 14, 2024

I installed Fedora on my PC to try out as my daily driver. I loved the experience except for a few irritations that eventually got me back to using Windows.

August 8, 2024

Until about two years ago, I was exclusively a Mac user, but Windows 11 has me rethinking that.

March 8, 2024

I came across an article today that discussed efforts being made to create an open-source technology to make UI development in Swift on Windows possible.

November 9, 2023

Visual Studio Code is a tool with many talents. Among those is the ability to not just debug Node.js applications, but also to debug them remotely.

August 4, 2020
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