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Microsoft buys Skype for $8.5 billion – not bad for a Delphi application!

Posted on June 3, 2011 by admin

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 →

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Microsoft shows Windows 8 and all talk of HTML5 and none of .NET and Silverlight

Posted on June 3, 2011 by admin

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 →

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Where to now with rich client application development?

Posted on March 7, 2011 by admin

In the 1990’s, C/C++ and Java ruled the enterprise application world while Microsoft’s Visual Basic was a very limited Windows application tool, and we had Borland’s Delphi with its far more powerful architecture providing one of the best native Windows … Continue reading →

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