I am interested in porting an application written for Mac OS X to Windows but I'm uncertain about the best APIs to use in terms of ease of development and learning. The backend is straight C/C++. I ...

Knowing Windows PowerShell is no longer a bonus for IT professionals who work with Windows Server -- it's a requirement. As Windows PowerShell becomes more prominent, the Windows Server GUI is fading ...

Don Jones clarifies his earlier statements regarding the pending doom of the GUI in Windows Server OSes -- and yes, death is still in the picture. In my July column, I pronounced the impending doom of ...

For production server environments, it’s recommended that you run the Server Core version of Windows Server 2012 which lacks a GUI. The purpose of that recommendation is that it reduces the resources ...

Windows 10 preview builds can now run Linux apps directly on the Windows 10 desktop using the new Windows Subsystem for Linux GUI. In this article, we go hands on with the new WSLg feature to ...

It's been a long time coming, but at its Build 2016 developer conference Microsoft unveiled two tools that finally put the nails in the coffin of the server GUI. And it's about time too. Looking at ...

I am looking to create a simple GUI that would assist me in generating ASCII files. My only experience with creating a GUI is using Java, and C++/SDL. I would prefer not to use Java, and C++/SDL ...

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