Monthly Archives: June 2011
Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion – not bad for a Delphi application!
Skype was written in Delphi which made it easy to download to users with any Windows machine without having to worry about users having to download MB’s of java or .NET support files. This ease of configuration from the net … Continue reading
Microsoft shows Windows 8 and all talk of HTML5 and none of .NET and Silverlight
Following my last post on Microsoft’s announcement that HTML5and javascript is now their preferred cross-platform development technology and apparently leaving .NET and Silverlight for only Windows and Mac development, Microsoft unveiled Windows 8 this week and seems to be pushing … Continue reading