My parents can’t get Microsoft Excel to work. The symptoms was that after installing some other program, suddenly when they open a document they are greeted with a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet–but the entire content area is gray. No cells, no editing, no joy–just a large gray expance where the data should be. But the application [...]
Dim Vista Windows Vista: more than five years in the making, more than 50 million lines of code. The result? A vista slightly more inspiring than the one over the town dump. The new slogan is: “The ‘Wow’ Starts Now,” and Microsoft touts new features, many filched shamelessly from Apple’s Macintosh. But as with every [...]
Perhaps this is true for all platforms, but it seems especially true for Microsoft Windows development: because of the number of tricks, code oddities and places where the way things work is completely unclear, it seems that Windows programming experience is measured not so much by length of time, but by the number of battle [...]