Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Microsoft has pumped out 26 new short videos on YouTube offering beginners a path to learn about Node.js, the server-side JavaScript runtime environment for building ...

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 Wednesday ...

Further confirming the increasing importance of JavaScript to the Microsoft development community, the company today took the wraps off of TypeScript, an open-source programming language with the goal ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore. It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.

Microsoft officials have made it clear that HTML5 and JavaScript are going to be key for developing for Windows 8. But Microsoft's HTML5/JS love doesn't stop there. It turns out that HTML5 and ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom ...

At JSConf in Florida today, Microsoft announced that it is open sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine used in its Edge and Internet Explorer browsers. The code will be published to the company's ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft is adding JavaScript performance improvements to the Chakra engine behind the Edge web ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...