Collaborate Disseminate
During a month’s long mediation process in U.S. v. Microsoft, developer documentation became a key requirement for a settlement.
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Heading into the late 1990s, Microsoft sought to consolidate its developer languages and tools into a single, cohesive environment.
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Microsoft first came to the attention to regulators a decade before its celebrated and vilified U.S. antitrust trial.
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We’re now three months and over 50 articles into the Programming Windows series. Here’s another quick progress report.
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When Microsoft announced that the oft-delayed Windows NT 5.0 would be renamed to Windows 2000, it marked the end of an era.
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It’s not exactly a road not taken, as each of its constituent parts did come to fruition. But Windows DNA was short-lived as a brand.
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With Windows NT 5.0 delayed again and again, Microsoft didn’t notice yet another competitor nipping at its heels.
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Two years into its incredible embrace of the Internet, Bill Gates became convinced that the strategy was now threatening Windows from within.
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VBScript was best used with the IIS web server and Active Server Pages (ASP) to “activate the Internet” with databases and ActiveX components.
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With ActiveX, Microsoft would “activate the Internet” by bringing its COM technologies to the web.
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