Collaborate Disseminate
While the rest of Microsoft embraces open source and open standards, Windows app development remains stuck in the proprietary past.
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The Universal Windows Platform (UWP) isn’t particularly well-suited to traditional productivity applications.
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I decided to port .NETpad from Visual Basic to C# in order to get up to speed on the latter language as quickly as possible.
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For much of the past year, I’ve been researching and working with Microsoft’s previous-generation developer technologies.
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Originally called COOL, for C++ Object-Oriented Language, this new language would very closely resemble Java.
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Anders Hejlsberg has been doing the impossible since his first foray into programming language and compiler design in 1980.
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On June 22, 2000, Microsoft co-founder and Chief Software Architect Bill Gates announced the .NET (“dot NET”) platform.
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With Sun suing to block Microsoft’s extensions to Java, the software giant decided to create a new programming language of its own.
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With Microsoft’s legal losses mounting in its U.S. antitrust case, the software giant suffered from an exodus of key executives.
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Sun was the more powerful adversary, but Microsoft’s strategy against it was consistent with what it did to Netscape and the web.
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