John started programming computers in the 1970s when you had to use punch cards and wait until tomorrow to get your compile finished. In the ensuing years, he moved from mainframes to PCs and was an early employee at Microsoft, working on multiple products include Visual C++ and Excel. Since joining Mobilize.Net in 2012, he's been focused on helping customers understand their options to modernize legacy software. John and his wife live on a hobby farm near Seattle, WA with three chickens and two Border Collies.
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by John Browne, on Jul 31, 2013 4:06:00 PM
OpenSignal just released a great rundown on Android fragmentation. Summary: bad and getting worse. This is a cool graphic (you can compare 2013 to 2012). I urge you to click …
Read Storyby John Browne, on Jul 24, 2013 9:42:00 AM
As we said in our last blog post, Forrester's global IT spending forecast shows that PC sales are going flat and tablets (and smartphones) are growing. This just in: tomorrow …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 9, 2013 11:54:00 AM
The Rhyme of the Ancient Programmer (with heartfelt apologies to STC) It is an ancient Programmer, And he stoppeth one of three. ‘By thy long gray beard and bloodshot eye, …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 3, 2013 3:55:00 PM
Perhaps because Windows 8 is pre-installed on most new desktops and laptops we're seeing a bit more confusion about how to install the VBUC. So I thought I'd either 1) …
Read Storyby John Browne, on May 3, 2013 6:00:00 AM
As it happens we talk to a LOT of people who want to modernize their legacy client/server apps. So we get a certain amount of unscientific survey data about what …
Read Storyby 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 …
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