by John Browne, on Apr 29, 2013 1:43:00 PM
On August 24, 2013, I'll be celebrating a wedding and Windows XP will be wearing a party hat for its 12th birthday. Almost 40% of desktops are still running Windows …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 11, 2013 9:58:00 AM
With IDC reporting the single biggest quarterly decline in PC shipments since they began tracking such data in 1994, it's beginning to look like the the downward slope is more …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Apr 1, 2013 4:52:00 AM
From the Seattle Times: VB7 mixup tied to hearing loss, Microsoft executive admits A recall today of Visual Basic 7, the latest release of the popular programming language, was due …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 13, 2013 4:16:00 PM
Given that 88 percent of surveyed companies admit they have a "problem" with legacy applications (57 percent rated the problem as serious) if you haven't yet started planning your application …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 12, 2013 6:00:00 AM
The amount of buzz around application modernization and migration these days is enormous--it seems that a perfect storm may be brewing: End of life for Windows XP and Visual Basic …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Mar 4, 2013 4:07:00 AM
Microsoft is a late entry into the tablet market (that is tablets as defined by the iPad, not by the original Tablet PC). Windows 8 was clearly designed to be …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 22, 2013 9:26:00 AM
I was looking for something and this popped up: an interview Playboy did with Bill Gates in 1994. Since I was still at Microsoft in '94 I read it (again) …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Feb 7, 2013 2:10:00 PM
So you've got a Visual Basic application that's as old and creaky as Grandpa's Buick and it's time to modernize it? Awesome! It's going to be great to have that …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 22, 2013 6:00:00 AM
Interesting article in the Inquirer (no, not the one with such accurate pictures of aliens) hinting that perhaps the larger 10" screen of the original iPad is quickly losing favor …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jan 21, 2013 9:22:00 AM
In case you missed this while preparing for the Mayan end of the world on Dec. 21, 2012, the W3C announced that the specifications for HTML5 are complete. This is, …
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