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The History of CTRL + ALT + DELETE | Mental Floss
ctrl+alt+delete started as a trade secret. Then it became an icon.
A Thrifty Photoshop Built for the Web | WIRED
A part of the growing free software movement, the GIMP image-editing application will debut next week, three years after its conception. Free-spirited developers can do with it what they will.
GIMP - How It All Started…
July 1995 - Two questions¶ At the end of July 1995, Peter Mattis posted a message in several newsgroups related to X11 and Linux application development, asking two questions and giving hints about an interesting program… From: Peter Mattis Subject:...
The Economy of Ideas | John Perry Barlow
A framework for patents and copyrights in the Digital Age. (Everything you know about intellectual property is wrong.)
Google Graveyard - Killed by Google
Killed by Google is the Google Graveyard. A full list of dead products killed by Google in the Google Cemetery.
Farts and f-bombs: see the hidden jokes in Microsoft's early code - The Verge
It seems that Microsoft's programmers weren't afraid to joke around a little bit while they were first coding some of its biggest software titles back in the '80s. Yesterday, Microsoft and the...
Word for scientific publishing | Microsoft Conversations
Pablo Fernicola is a group manager at Microsoft. He runs a project focused on delivering tools and services for scientific and technical publishing, with a particular interest on the transition from print to electronic and web based content, and its implications for collaboration, search, and content discovery in the future.
In this interview, Pablo explains how a new add-in for Word, now available as a technical preview, helps authors and publishers of scientific articles work more effectively with one another, and with online archives like PubMed Central.
Chris Wilson | Microsoft Conversations
Hi, this is Jon Udell. In this first installment of my new Microsoft Conversations series I got together with Chris Wilson. He's been involved with Internet Explorer and with web standards for over a decade. We talked about the history and evolution of IE, about Ajax, about ways of extending the browser -- ranging from bookmarklets to Firefox extensions to plug-ins -- and about the W3C's invitation to Chris to chair its new HTML working group.
A talk with Marty Collins about blogs, architectural guidance, and technical marketing | Microsoft Conversations.mp3
Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship between blogs and technical marketing, and I wanted to hear her thoughts on the same subject, so we wound up interviewing each other.
She was interested to hear my take on how professionals -- not only in the field of software, but also much more broadly -- can and should use blogs to communicate their public agendas.
I was fascinated to hear from her about an upcoming marketing initiative to monitor blog discussions and address questions and concerns by injecting responses directly into blog comments. It's a radical but, I think, clueful strategy for 21st-century marketers.
A conversation with Jon Udell about his new job with Microsoft - Jon Udell
For today's podcast I decided to interview myself about my upcoming new gig. It's a short episode, under six minutes, and the transcript follows.
Jon Udell: A talk with Marty Collins about blogs, architectural guidance, and technical marketing | Microsoft Conversations with J | Channel 9
Marty Collins is senior marketing manager with the solution architecture group responsible for msdn.microsoft.com/architecture and skyscrapr.net. She wanted to interview me about the relationship
Inside Microsoft (Part I) | BusinessWeek
The untold story of how the Internet forced Bill Gates to reverse course
U.S. v. Microsoft: We're Defending Our Right to Innovate | Bill Gates
Linus Torvalds Shares His Thoughts on Microsoft's New-Found Love for Linux | OMG! Ubuntu!
Linus Torvalds was asked if he thinks there's anything to fear from Microsoft's recent embrace of all things Linux and open source — this is what he said.
Tomorrow, the World Wide Web!; Microsoft, the PC King, Wants to Reign Over the Internet | The New York Times
The Microsoft Case | OpenLaw
The Microsoft Case: Document Archive and Discussion Forum
Full text of IN MICROSOFT WE TRUST, by Phil Lemmons (July 2002)
Memos Released in Sun-Microsoft Suit | New York Times
Documents released today in the Microsoft Corporation's second major legal front -- the lawsuit filed by its rival Sun Microsystems -- include E-mail messages and internal memos certain to embarrass
V-A.pdf
Discuss web gateway
Discuss is a networked electronic conferencing system, similar to the bulletin board programs found on many computer systems.
October 2020 Weblog: Finding the Web and Making Your Place - The History of the Web
This month, making a website has never been this easy. Understanding the web, however, is another story
Tom Dissevelt & Kid Baltan - Song of the Second Moon (1957)
Philips Research Laboratories, Netherlands
2.1 Million of the Oldest Internet Posts Are Now Online for Anyone to Read
Jozef Jarosciak just put millions of early Usenet posts on a browsable archive for the first time.
Microsoft Wins Latest Round In Browser Bout With Netscape - WSJ
A battle is underway between Microsoft and Netscape Communications for control of the market for software needed to view and publish material on the Internet's World Wide Web. The fight has intensified over the past 10 days as each company has released a new version of its browser software, the programs required to surf the Web.
I miss Microsoft Encarta - Scott Hanselman's Blog
Microsoft Encarta came out in 1993 and was one of the first CD-ROMs I had. It ...
Progressive Web Apps: Escaping Tabs Without Losing Our Soul - Infrequently Noted
Alex Russell on browsers, standards, and the process of progress.
Why John McAfee Was Secretly a Social Media Innovator
The controversial jailed antivirus software mogul John McAfee followed up his virus-fighting work with one of the first social networks. Really.
Samuel 💻✨ Messner on Twitter
An underdocumented part of Japan's video game history: arcades had (and, to an extent, have!) communal notebooks in which people would write game tips, comments, ask questions, and generally communicate – GameFAQs before GameFAQs! These were core for Japan arcades' social aspect. pic.twitter.com/KXkMykbvGq— Samuel 💻✨ Messner (@obskyr) October 13, 2020
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