
Автор: Paul Thurrott, Rafael Rivera
Издательство: Leanpub
Год: 2023-03-19
Страниц: 938
Язык: английский
Формат: pdf (true)
Размер: 139.7 MB
This is the story of Microsoft Windows, but told in a different way and from a different perspective. It is the story of the aspirations that Microsoft had for the platform over time. Object-Oriented Programming in the era of “Cairo.” The brief moment when the .NET craze engulfed the company. The touch-first mania of Windows 8. And so much more. The history of Windows can be seen as a series of reactions to competitors, market trends, and internal forces that were seeking change. Along the way, Microsoft worked to improve and adapt Windows to an incredible variety of new uses cases, form factors, and competition. From a milestone perspective, most normally think of the history of Windows as a series of product version releases starting in 1985. That history is well-documented, I think, but since it’s important to our alternate history of application development technologies, it’s perhaps worth considering briefly.