The Open Technologies Group has open sourced ASP.NET, MVC 4, and the Entity Framework, among other technologies.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/01/2013
The growing use of cloud back-end services for mobile apps is creating a new security risk in the mobile development space.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 04/30/2013
The improvements involved the "Virtual Network" and "Virtual Machines" components of Windows Azure, affecting the access of virtual networks, either from behind a corporate firewall or remotely.
Other tools target iOS, Android, Silverlight and WPF.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 04/25/2013
Things won't happen as quickly for on-premises versions of Office.
CFO says that the public can expect to see more touch-enabled Windows devices being released at "more attractive price points" in the coming months.
Microsoft's overall revenue was $20.5 billion for the quarter, an 18% increase year-over-year.
Xamarin announces Xamarin Test Cloud, an automated, cross-platform UI testing service.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 04/16/2013
Microsoft hopes to compete more directly with tablets like the iPad Mini and Kindle Fire.
The company operates more than 200 unique cloud-scale services.
The framework is built on top of jQuery.
- By John K. Waters
- 04/03/2013
The USB stick contained a copy of Windows 8 and Parallels Desktop 8, for a small donation to charity.
Microsoft releases Python Tools for Visual Studio 2.0 alpha.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/22/2013
Andy Rubin, although leaving his current position, is still staying with the company.
Windows 8 tablets are expected to perform much better than their Windows RT counterparts.
Windows 8 adoption rates have fallen even below Windows Vista.
Microsoft says it was an oversight that resulted in a deleted browser choice screen for more than a year.
Microsoft recently released Office Developer Tools for Visual Studio 2012, a downloadable suite for creating apps for Office and SharePoint.
- By Katrina Carrasco
- 03/04/2013
The release lags IE 10 for Windows 8 by many months.
Microsoft becomes the latest victim of a spate of intrusions.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 02/25/2013