Programming Windows

Confusion reigned in the wake of Microsoft’s consumer-focused Windows 10 event in January 2015. There…

Microsoft spent much of 2013 and 2014 correcting the mistakes of Windows 8 via a…

2014 began with exciting news: my sources told me that Microsoft would discuss its vision…

The fallout from Windows 8 was immediate. Steven Sinofsky, who had done more to harm…

For years, Microsoft had worked closely with its biggest partners to maintain and expand a…

With the Windows 8 Consumer Preview behind them, Steven Sinofsky and his lieutenants prepared for…

On February 29, 2012, Steven Sinofsky stepped onto a small stage at the Hotel Miramar…

With the Windows 8 Developer Preview, the Windows team had finally gone public with its…

I spent a lot of time trying to figure out a way to run the…

It all began with a lie. “What’s the Windows 8 app platform going to look…

By 2010, Windows’ fate was sealed. The web and the iPhone had disrupted personal computing,…

On the morning of Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer’s third CES keynote, in January 2011, I…

2010 was an interesting year for Microsoft: in the wake of Apple’s iPad announcement, it…

On Wednesday, January 27, 2010, Apple CEO Steve Jobs unveiled the iPad, realizing his years-long…

Windows 7 couldn’t have arrived at a better time for Microsoft: 2009 was a terrible…

In January 2010, I visited the Microsoft campus in Redmond, Washington, and interviewed Technical Fellow…