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On October 31st, 2019 with 90 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: People are rioting in the streets of Barcelona. For the last month, hundreds of thousands of people have joined...
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On October 16th, 2019 with 34 comments
Continuing its embracing of open source, Microsoft has today announced two new open source projects. From a report: The first is Open Application Model (OAM),...
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On September 30th, 2019 with 63 comments
An anonymous reader quotes ZDNet:
Microsoft has launched a new 44-part series called Python for Beginners on YouTube, consisting of three- to four-minute...
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On September 9th, 2019 with 11 comments
An anonymous reader shares a report: When Microsoft bought 6Wunderkinder, the developer of Wunderlist, in 2015, officials said they planned to shut down that...
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On July 17th, 2019 with 146 comments
Microsoft plans to explore using the Rust programming language as an alternative to C, C++, and others, as a way to improve the security posture of its and...
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On July 12th, 2019 with 25 comments
Last year, Oracle filed a lawsuit against the U.S. government complaining about the procurement process around the Pentagon's $10 billion, decade-long JEDI...
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On June 23rd, 2019 with 217 comments
Technology writer Matthew MacDonald began writing QuickBASIC code back in 1988 on the DOS operating system, sharing it on a 3.5-inch floppy disk. "I still...
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On June 5th, 2019 with 69 comments
Microsoft and Oracle announced a new alliance today that will see the two companies directly connect their clouds over a direct network connection so that...
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On May 31st, 2019 with 40 comments
theodp writes: It's not just Hollywood that's running out of new story ideas. Fueled by a $1.1 million NSF award, PBS stalwart Roadtrip Nation is casting...
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On May 26th, 2019 with 39 comments
"Learn to build quantum algorithms from the ground up with a quantum computer simulated in your browser," suggests a new online course.
"The very concept...
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On May 26th, 2019 with 100 comments
A post this week on Microsoft's developer blog explains "what we, the Python team, have done to make Python easier to install on Windows" after the next...
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On May 20th, 2019 with 69 comments
An anonymous reader writes: At its Build 2018 developer conference a year ago, Microsoft previewed Visual Studio IntelliCode, which uses AI to offer...
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On May 6th, 2019 with 30 comments
Krystalo writes: At its developer conference Build today, Microsoft previewed new Visual Studio features for remote work, the .NET roadmap, and launched...
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On May 4th, 2019 with 140 comments
ZDNet asked the question -- pointing to a RedMonk survey which found TypeScript jumped in popularity from #16 to #12 over the last six months (based on its...
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On May 3rd, 2019 with 24 comments
An anonymous reader writes: A couple of years ago, Microsoft and Epic Games executives were mad at each other. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called out Microsoft...
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On April 19th, 2019 with 261 comments
Microsoft has introduced a new open source programming language called Bosque that aspires to be simple and easy to understand by embracing algebraic...
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On April 2nd, 2019 with 93 comments
An anonymous reader writes: Microsoft today announced that Visual Studio 2019 for Windows and Mac has hit general availability — you can download it now...
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On March 22nd, 2019 with 138 comments
Microsoft's programming language TypeScript has become one of the most popular languages among developers, at least according to a report published by the...
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On January 8th, 2019 with 74 comments
GitHub has always offered free accounts, but users were forced to make their code public. To get private repositories, you had to pay. Now, as TechCrunch...
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On December 15th, 2018 with 163 comments
Steve Dower, a Python developer at Microsoft, describes how the language become popular internally:
In 2010, our few Pythonistas were flying under the radar,...
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On December 10th, 2018 with 55 comments
Long time reader theodp writes: At Monday's kickoff event with Melinda Gates for Computer Science Education Week 2018, Microsoft President Brad Smith revealed...
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On December 9th, 2018 with 328 comments
SwiftOnSecurity, regarding Microsoft's switch to Chromium as Windows's built-in rendering engine: This isn't about Chrome. This is about ElectronJS. Microsoft...
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On December 8th, 2018 with 100 comments
Microsoft's Visual Basic .NET now ranks above JavaScript, PHP, SQL on TIOBE's index of programming language popularity, which ZDNet notes is "the highest it's...
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On December 4th, 2018 with 72 comments
An anonymous reader writes: At its Microsoft Connect(); 2018 virtual event today, Microsoft announced the initial public preview of Visual Studio 2019 -- you...
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On November 16th, 2018 with 35 comments
Microsoft announced Friday that it is opening up its online apps store to 64-bit ARM app submissions from developers, further cementing its commitment to make...
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On October 26th, 2018 with 87 comments
Microsoft has official closed its acquisition of GitHub, the Git-based code sharing and collaboration service with 31 million developers. "The Redmond,...
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On September 30th, 2018 with 85 comments
Mads Torgersen, the lead designer of C# at Microsoft, remembers "Project Roslyn," which built an open-source, cross-platform compiler for C# and Visual...
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On September 8th, 2018 with 181 comments
Microsoft Research has pre-published a new paper to be presented at the IEEE Cybersecurity Development Conference 2018 describing their progress on Checked C,...
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On August 4th, 2018 with 70 comments
Microsoft released version 3.0 of TypeScript, which Microsoft describes as an "extension" of JavaScript "that aims to bring static types to modern JavaScript."...
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