by 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 …
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 26, 2013 4:00:00 AM
Now that Microsoft is on the scene so to speak I think you will see a big push to get developers to write apps for the Windows store. Admittedly the …
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