很多技术的兴衰，并非源自技术本身，而是内部团队的权力博弈、开发者大会上对尚未成熟平台的过早押注，或者一次突如其来的商业战略转向，把开发者直接“晾在一边”。 如果你曾在 Windows 平台上做过开发，大概率都经历过类似的困惑：框架很多，路线各异 ...

前微软CTO、在微软效力23年的Jeffrey Snover近日发布长篇博文，系统梳理了微软过去数十年间在GUI（图形用户界面）上的反复摇摆，揭示了Windows开发生态为何走向碎片化的原因。 首先将时间线拉回1980年代，当时的Win16和Win32 API为所有Windows开发者提供了一致的开发 ...

Microsoft’s romance with Linux over the last few years has reached new heights: developers will now be able to run Linux apps with an honest-to-goodness GUI directly in Windows 10. Developers ...

On April 21, Microsoft released a new Windows 10 test build, 21364, to the Dev Channel. This build includes a few new noteworthy features including the ability to run Linux graphical user interface ...

随着 Windows 11 的发布，微软也调整了 Windows 的功能更新频率，从原本的一年两次功能更新调整为一年一次更新，与此同时，也针对 Windows Insider 的发布节奏进行了调整，Dev 通道则面向第二年的功能更新，而 Beta 通道则会基于当年的功能更新。只不过微软即便是在 Windows Insider 这种公开测试领域，也会采用 A/B 对照测试，甚至会在默认将一些特定的新 ...

There isn't a whole lot of Windows-focused development news at Build this week, but that may be by design. Microsoft is rumored to be planning a dedicated Windows event later this summer (and possibly ...

Brien Posey explains why PowerShell timers can cause Windows Forms dashboards to freeze or fail to update, and why keeping GUI scripts responsive requires a different approach to timed events.

Microsoft’s Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) has allowed users to install a Linux distribution and run command line applications since Windows 10 first launched in 2015. Initially aimed at developers ...

Microsoft announced today at the Build 2021 developer conference that support for running Linux GUI apps is now available via Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL). The feature was first released one ...