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 ...

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

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 ...

Microsoft is looking to improve Web performance in Windows 10 by bringing in Mozilla’s asm.js JavaScript subset, for inclusion in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine. A post in the IEBlog ...

The goal is to eventually get developers to start working more diligently on apps aimed at the Windows 10 IoT Core platform by way of Node.js. That's where Node.js Tools for Windows IoT 1.5 comes in.

After about a year of percolating, Microsoft officially announced general availability of the Windows Library for JavaScript version 3.0. News came via a blog post on the Windows blog home page from ...

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.

Microsoft says that the JavaScript performance for its new Microsoft Edge web browser is already beating Internet Explorer, Google's Chrome and Mozilla's Firefox in two benchmark tests.

If you want to make your code better and the process efficient, check our list of some of the best VS Code extensions for JavaScript ...