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 ...

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 ...

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 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.

As far as coding languages go, JavaScript has never been more relevant. That’s because it allows programmers to add interactive elements to websites and apps, which is something that’s really ...

Ars Technica says Microsoft's apparent shift of focus toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 coding has got Windows developers in an uproar.

Fabrice Bellard, creator of the multiple architecture emulator QEMU and FFmpeg, amongst other open source projects, has unleashed his Javascript powered PC emulator. In its current state, it boots a ...

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

In a new post on the Internet Explorer developer blog, Microsoft goes over some of the changes it has made to Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 in terms of improving JavaScript performance.

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 ...