Description: One winter day in 1986, while working in a federal research program in Alaska, drinking a cup of coffee and reading the latest issue of Dr. Dobbs, I learned of a technology that seemed to hold out the promise of solving a lot of problems for my colleagues. According to Dr Dobbs Editor Jon Erickson, Microsoft\'s Windows 1.0 was going to do great things for IBM PC users. \"Hock the Volvo\" he admonished, \"and buy the Windows SDK right now!\".