近日，前微软技术研究员、Office AI 架构师 Jeffrey Snover 带来了一篇长文，以亲历者的视角，把过去三十多年 Windows GUI 技术演进中的关键节点一一拆开，讲清楚问题是如何一步步积累、失控，并最终演变成今天这个“百花齐放却无所适从”的局面。

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Microsoft has published a new document on GitHub to clarify the goals of 'Project Reunion' and what it consists of. As ZDNet's Mary Jo Foley reported recently, Project Reunion aims to unify Win32 and ...

I'm trying to decide whether or not I want to learn win32 or MFC for windows programming.<P>I have the Programming Windows With MFC right now and am about a third of the way through it with no ...

Non-packaged Win32 applications have a serious challenge in accessing many sought-after Windows APIs and features. The likes of BackgroundTasks, Notifications, LiveTiles, Share and more, are either ...

Ten years ago around this very time—April through June 2008—our intrepid Microsoft guru Peter Bright evidently had an identity crisis. Could this lifelong PC user really have been pushed to the brink?

Microsoft’s Project Reunion will give developers of traditional Win32 apps access to new APIs including the Fluent UI common to modern Windows apps. (Microsoft Image) Microsoft is bringing traditional ...

Whisky allows you to install Apple's Game Porting Toolkit on your Mac. Here's how to use it to run Steam games. We previously covered how to use the Whisky app to install the Game Porting Toolkit ...