New combined company will have more than 850 employees.
The company is bringing back free tooling for Windows desktop apps after developers expressed frustration over the Visual Studio 2012 Express lineup.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/08/2012
By adding IaaS to its Platform as a Service (PaaS) portfolio, Microsoft is also mounting its most formidable challenge yet to Amazon Web Services.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 06/07/2012
IDC predicts that Windows Phone will surpass iPhone sales in four years; Android still out front.
The second hands-on look at Microsoft's upcoming compilers-as-a-service technology is now available to developers in a June 2012 Community Technology Preview.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/05/2012
Microsoft is one step closer to delivering the final versions of Visual Studio 2012 and the .NET Framework 4.5.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 06/05/2012
As promised, Microsoft delivered the Windows 8 Release Preview on Thursday. The 'Release Preview' is the final preview of Windows 8 and Internet Explorer 10.
Compatibility questions listed as No. 1 reason they wouldn't make the move.
Proposed deal comes amid discouraging financial news for Dell.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/25/2012
Windows developers can host code and collaborate with colleagues through brand-new application.
Visual Studio 11 Express for Windows Phone is slated for release with the next version of Windows Phone, the company announced on Friday.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/21/2012
The Release Candidate of Microsoft's object-relational mapping framework for .NET is available via NuGet.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/18/2012
Businesses are under pressure to respond much faster to customer requirements and competitive threats.
- By Jeffrey Schwartz
- 05/17/2012
XobotOS is a Xamarin-developed project that translated millions of lines of Java to C#.
This latest build is the first update since Silverlight 5 was released in December 2011.
- By Kathleen Richards
- 05/11/2012
F-14 Tomcat fighter pilot turned .NET architect Brian Noyes talks with John Waters about XAML, WPF and more.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/11/2012
In Microsoft's last fiscal third quarter, Server and Tools delivered $4.57 billion in revenue to the company, up 14 percent. The division is large, growing and increasingly profitable
The cloud wars heat up as Amazon promises easier deployment and scalability for database and application developers.
Microsoft hears its developers, and colorizes the monochrome look of Visual Studio 11 beta.
Today CSLA is one of the most widely used open source software development frameworks for .NET. We talk to its creator about how it came about and its many uses.
- By John K. Waters
- 05/07/2012