Microsoft is guiding developers toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 app development. It turns out the company also is pushing these Web technologies as key to extending Office 15 and Office 365.

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls.

Microsoft has expanded the role of its Chakra JavaScript engine in Windows 10-- giving developers to use it for scripting support in their own applications. Formerly focused on a server-side role ...

Windows, for years now, has been able to run Microsoft’s version of JavaScript, called JScript. The fish bowl that JScript was designed to live inside was not a web page, but Windows itself.

I recently accepted Packt Publishing 's invitation to review Rami Sarieddine 's book Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript .

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Bun 1.1, the latest version of the Bun toolkit and drop-in Node.js replacement for building, testing, and running JavaScript and TypeScript, now supports Windows 10.

Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web browser, which will be available for all Windows 10 users as part of the upcoming Anniversary Update.

For some time Microsoft didn't offer a solution for processing big data in cloud environments. SQL Server is good for storage, but its ability to analyze terabytes of data is limited. Hadoop ...