Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

Open source developers resist Microsoft code. Again, not news. And if Microsoft developers support both while open source supports just one, that's a gain in a mixed-source world.

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel 8080-powered Altair 8800. As explained in a Microsoft blog, the version that's just ...

Instead, what Microsoft is doing here is taking some of the low-code aspects of a tool like Power Apps and using AI to essentially turn those into no-code experiences, too.

I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these ...

Microsoft's Debug-Gym is a Python-driven framework aimed at assessing capabilities of AI agents in handling practical code-repair challenges.

Interview: Stephen Toulouse discusses how Microsoft's programmers now develop code with security in mind ...

After a weekend of rumors, Microsoft officially announced Monday that it will acquire the code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The platform is an important resource for some 28 ...

Eighteen years ago, a code-signing issue with Small Business Server 2003 caused problems for early installations. Last week, a similar problem has cropped up in Windows 11.

Today, Microsoft announced it is acquiring the company GitHub for $7.5 billion. If you're at all plugged into the broader world of tech, you've no doubt heard of both companies. But unless you're ...