Microsoft is set to take its all-important Web services plan to its most important clientele: software developers. After four years of development and two years of marketing hype, Microsoft will on ...

Application platform update brings enhancements for AI agent development, cryptography, runtime performance, and the C# and F# programming languages.

SAP is poised to release the first product stemming from an initiative to more tightly align its business software with Microsoft's tools. The two companies on Wednesday are expected to announce the ...

Developers planning to upgrade to the latest version of Microsoft’s Visual Studio code-writing platform will find a new and improved user interface that the company says will make writing and editing ...

Microsoft Corp. is upgrading its Azure Foundry service with new features that will make it easier for developers to build artificial intelligence applications. The company debuted the enhancements ...

At its core, VS Code is built on an open source project called Code OSS, published under the permissive MIT license. Microsoft maintains this repository publicly on GitHub, where anyone can clone, ...

Microsoft on Wednesday offered a progress report on its "Secure Future Initiative" (SFI). The announcement by Bret Arsenault, Microsoft's corporate vice president and chief cybersecurity advisor, ...

Microsoft Corp. is rolling out a suite of new tools and services at its Build conference this week that are designed to accelerate the development and deployment of the autonomous assistants called ...

Microsoft’s quantum computer may not have a working qubit yet, but the company has been hard at work on building the tools to program future quantum computers. Over the course of the last few years, ...

Ever since Ada Lovelace, a polymath often considered the first computer programmer, proposed in 1843 using holes punched into cards to solve mathematical equations on a never-built mechanical computer ...

In an exclusive interview with MIT Technology Review, Nadella shares his view of the platform shift for developers. In San Francisco last week, everyone’s favorite surprise visitor was Microsoft CEO ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...