Microsoft Corp.’s long hold on power in the software industry has depended on its solid grip on developers. Programmers have written uncountable desktop and client/server applications over the decades ...

Microsoft is set to take its all-important Web services plan to its most important clientele: software developers. After four years of development and two years of marketing hype, Microsoft will on ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

This past week saw two tech titans fighting for attention with dueling developer conferences: Microsoft Build and Google I/O. Microsoft was talking to a business audience, and Alphabet’s Google to its ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...

For the past few years, Microsoft has been looking to get game developers to use Azure and other Microsoft cloud services. On March 23, Microsoft announced the launch of a couple more programs and ...

Ibtihal Abouassad, a Moroccan programmer at Microsoft, has lost access to her work accounts and cannot log back in, suggesting she may have been fired, the Associated Press reported. This development ...

Microsoft has removed registration fees for individual developers who want to publish apps on the Microsoft Store, making it free to join. The change is now live in over 200 markets. It also means ...

AI might not be transforming every job yet, but it’s having a big impact on developers. AI might not be transforming every job yet, but it’s having a big impact on developers. is a senior editor and ...

Way back when: People used screensavers to prevent "burn-in" on CRT monitors, where static images could permanently damage the screen. Screensavers like 3D Pipes animated the display during inactivity ...

This week's big Ignite 2022 tech conference served as an opportunity for Microsoft to further tout its low-code development offerings, most centered around the Azure cloud and some augmented by ...