Stories from inside Microsoft (1998 - 2003)
Watch now (51 min) | Yelled at by Gates. Spit on by Ballmer. NT 5, DEC Alphas, Office for Mac, Windows Media Player for Mac, and more. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Word… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
And it all dates back to… Microsoft Xenix. ⌘ Read more
An optimist, a pessimist, and Microsoft Excel.
(Those three are the start of all great jokes.) ⌘ Read more
Microsoft open sources 1995’s “3D Movie Maker”
Including the BRender 3D engine used in games like Carmageddon. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft attempts to block Elon Musk purchase of Linux
“Hey! We already bought Linux,” says Microsoft CEO Satya Nadela ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Write - The First Word Processor for Windows (also released for Mac and… Atari ST?)
That’s right. Microsoft made Write for Mac and Atari ST. Weird, right? ⌘ Read more
Microsoft announces “Total Darkness Mode” for Windows 11
“Windows has never looked better!” says Twitter user ⌘ Read more
Wordle ported to Windows 3.1, PalmOS, DOS, Linux Terminal… and much more.
Tandy Color Computer 3, Atari 2600, Game Boy, Emacs, and… Microsoft Word? Yup. Wordle is there too. ⌘ Read more
Documenting Microsoft’s funky attempts at porting software to UNIX
Listen now (15 min) | I was there for part of it. Trying to preserve that weird part of computing history. ⌘ Read more
Internet Explorer… for UNIX? Yes. It’s real.
Microsoft built Internet Explorer for both Solaris and HP-UX. Outlook Express and Windows Media Player are here too! ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Buys Zork (and Kings Quest)… and I have thoughts about it.
Listen now (18 min) | The Lunduke Journal Podcast #13 ⌘ Read more
Microsoft’s bad history disrespecting classic video games (a firsthand account)
The Redmond giant just purchased some of the most historically significant video games… but will they respect them? ⌘ Read more
Microsoft now owns: Zork, Kings Quest, Leisure Suit Larry, and After Dark
And Pitfall! Plus River Raid. Also Heretic and MechWarrior. Wait. Wait. WHAT?! ⌘ Read more
Microsoft acquires Daniel Radcliffe in historic $73 Billion deal
Suggests MS-Radcliffe integration with Call of Duty, World of Warcraft. ⌘ Read more
开源走向世界（下）：从数据库技术演进看开源力量丨 BDTC 2021
本文内容根据 PingCAP 高级副总裁范若晗在 BDTC 2021 的主题演讲：“开源走向世界” 整理而成，从协作方式和技术演进两个角度，分享了 “开源” 和 “全球化” 之间相互关联，密不可分的关系，分为上下两篇，上篇介绍了开源如何构建全球化的舞台，本篇主题为：从数据库技术演进看开源力量
我们认为，数据技术演进的驱动力总结起来，主要包括三个方面：理论基础推动软件创新、基础设施保障软件能力的实现、业务需求真正打磨了技术的不断工程化、产品化，是产品真正的 “用武之地”。
数据库演进历史——基础理论驱动
按照时间和功能维度，我们将数据生态做了划分，大致包括 SQL 生态，大数据生态，NoSQL 生态，NewSQL 生态，以及 SQL 的云化生态。每个生态的演进，离不开基础理论的发展。
1970 年 IBM 的关系型数据库理论 Relational Model 包括 System R 原型产品的问世，为 Oracle、DB2、MicroSoft SQL Server 这些商业数据库的诞生奠定了基础。而后 MySQL、PostgreSQL 以开源这一形态获得快速发展和全球最广泛的应用。
200 … ⌘ Read more
Excelize 发布 2.5.0 版本，Go 语言 Excel 文档基础库
Excelize 是 Go 语言编写的用于操作 Office Excel 文档基础库，基于 ECMA-376，ISO/IEC 29500 国际标准。可以使用它来读取、写入由 Microsoft Excel™ 2007 及以上版本创建的电子表格文档。支持 XLSX / XLSM / XLTM 等多种文档格式，高度兼容带有样式、图片 … ⌘ Read more
The last programming project from Bill Gates: Microsoft BASIC for TRS-80 Model 100
This Operating System was the last project that Bill Gates played a major role in programming… and it’s actually pretty amazing. ⌘ Read more
Microsoft Windows 1.0 : Not as bad as you’d think
Multitasking. Virtual Memory. Tiled window manager. Turns out the very first version of Windows (from 1985) actually has some good points. ⌘ Read more
If Lunduke ran Microsoft…
What would Lunduke do if he were the CEO of Microsoft? Awesome things. That’s what. Here’s what Lunduke’s first week would look like. ⌘ Read more
Join Docker This Month at KubeCon and the Cloud Engineering Summit
Two cloud-related conferences are coming up this month, and Docker will have speakers at both. First up, Docker CTO Justin Cormack will present at KubeCon next week. The week after that Peter McKee, Docker’s head of Developer Relations, will speak at Pulumi Cloud Engineering Summit. At KubeCon, Justin and co-presenter Steve Lasker of Microsoft will […]
The post [Join Docker This Month at KubeCo … ⌘ Read more
Encryptomatic OpenPGP is updated for Microsoft Outlook and Windows Desktop. ⌘ Read more…
Encryptomatic® OpenPGP 2.7.7 Email Encryption Add-in for Microsoft Outlook is now available. ⌘ Read more…
Docker Open Sources Compose for Amazon ECS and Microsoft ACI ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/open-source-cloud-compose/
Microsoft gets exclusive license for OpenAI’s GPT-3 language model | VentureBeat ⌘ https://venturebeat.com/2020/09/22/microsoft-gets-exclusive-license-for-openais-gpt-3-language-model/
Announcing the GitHub integration with Microsoft Teams ⌘ https://github.blog/2020-09-10-announcing-the-github-integration-with-microsoft-teams/
DockerCon 2020: The Microsoft Sessions ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/dockercon-2020-the-microsoft-sessions/
Running a container in Microsoft Azure Container Instances (ACI) with Docker Desktop Edge ⌘ https://www.docker.com/blog/running-a-container-in-aci-with-docker-desktop-edge/
Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416
Iconic Icons: Designing the World of Windows https://medium.com/microsoft-design/iconic-icons-designing-the-world-of-windows-5e70e25e5416
Sending Large Email File Attachments from Microsoft Outlook with OutDisk SFTP Add-in ⌘ Read more…
Closing LinkedIn
Not long ago—not even a year now—I re-created a LinkedIn account, mostly following an invitation to join from one of my friends. I did it against my will, because for whatever reason I have hated LinkedIn even since before it was acquired by Microsoft. Yet, I joined, filled very little information, set privacy settings to fully closed—or so I thought—and moved on.
Soon after I started receiving UCE from medical, or pharmaceutical related companies. As many as ten emails per day. I calle … ⌘ Read more
https://www.microsoft.com/ie/ 404s. End of an age, I tell you.
OutDisk FTP Add-in for Microsoft Outlook has been Updated. ⌘ Read more…
I Blocked Amazon, Facebook, Google, Microsoft, and Apple https://gizmodo.com/i-cut-the-big-five-tech-giants-from-my-life-it-was-hel-1831304194
MSX History: The Platform Microsoft Forgot https://tedium.co/2019/01/29/microsoft-msx-history/
White Mirror: How did Microsoft’s 2009 predictions for the world of 2019 hold up? / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/12/31/how-did-microsofts-2009-predic.html
Hey, maybe now that microsoft is pushing chrome, things will get bad enough that electron will be dropped & developers will remember that cross-platform GUI toolkits exist that don’t involve spamming HTML
What was the role of MS-DOS in Windows 95? – The Old New Thing https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20071224-00/?p=24063
Disk Compressor History: A Microsoft Antitrust Prelude https://tedium.co/2018/09/04/disk-compression-stacker-doublespace-history/
The Case Against UI Consistency https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/wp-content/uploads/2017/01/the-case-against-user-interface-consistency.pdf
GitHub Is Microsoft’s $7.5 Billion Undo Button - Bloomberg https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-06-06/github-is-microsoft-s-7-5-billion-undo-button
Hot take: the endgame of any company is 90s Microsoft or death. If Microsoft had not bought Github, Github would have become Microsoft, because it has a profit motive.
‘Crush Them’: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
âCrush Themâ: An Oral History of the Lawsuit That Upended Silicon Valley - The Ringer https://www.theringer.com/tech/2018/5/18/17362452/microsoft-antitrust-lawsuit-netscape-internet-explorer-20-years
What should you do when Google gets into bed with the US military? | WIRED UK http://www.wired.co.uk/article/google-microsoft-amazon-us-military-ai-conflict
Expression Web Tutorial: How to Design a Website with Microsoft Expression Web ⌘ https://www.thesitewizard.com/expression-web/expression-web-4-tutorial-1.shtml
Microsoft Visual Studio Code
Microsoft launched its free (non open source), cross-platform, code editor early this year (April, 2015), at its Build Developer Conference.
I have been tempted to try it, as I read its file comparison is very nice, its intelliSense, and it’s based on the [same platfor … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft and global cybercrime
From The Official Microsoft Blog:
On June 19, Microsoft filed for an ex parte temporary restraining order (TRO) from the U.S. District Court for Nevada against No-IP. On June 26, the court granted our request and made Microsoft the DNS authority for the company’s 23 free No-IP domains, allowing us to identify and route a … ⌘ Read more
MCITP - Enterprise Server Administrator
The last two weeks were very busy ones. I went through a Boot Camp and obtained the Microsoft Certified Information Technology Professional certification, as an Enterprise Server 2008 Administrator. Much more to do with the product, but migration is on my close horizon.
As a side note, and totally unrelated, I will change the way this weblog look soon. I will probably start over as well, all the old content gone. Not sure yet about that last part, but … ⌘ Read more
Microsoft DRM server going offline
Rob Bennett, head of MSN Entertainment and Video Services, wrote to customers in an email:
As of August 31, 2008, we will no longer be able to support the retrieval of license keys for the songs you purchased from MSN Music or the authorization of additional computers. You will need to obtain a license key for each of your songs downloaded from MSN Music on any new computer, and you must do so before August 31, 2008. If you attempt to transfer your songs to additi … ⌘ Read more