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Upcoming upgrade for Google’s JavaScript framework will dump old browser compatibility but will play nice with multiple development frameworks.

IPython’s development plans receive significant boost after Microsoft elects to sponsor the platform with a $100 thousand donation. A command shell for interactive computing in multiple programming languages, the IPython was awarded the 2012 Award for the Advancement of Free Software at Libre Planet this year. Dr Fernando Perez, the man behind the platform, originally developed it as a sort of

Microsoft Visual Studio 2013 introduced new features that programmers needed to boost their productivity and save time working inside the Editor. Some of the features are new while some are the most popular extensions from Productivity Power Tools. The primary focus for the Editor in this version is to keep the developer in context as much as possible. According to Microsoft the changes they made

The highly-anticipated released of Microsoft's flagship project, the Visual Studio 2013 got a preview of some of its details during the Tech Ed 2013 while the public preview will be held later this month at Build. Most of the changes in the Visual Studio 2013 are to Team Foundation Server, some developers were expecting and hoping for major changes to Visual Studio itself, so they have to be

The world's leading software company, Microsoft, has released the second update in one of their most popular product, the Visual Studio 2012. After just four months since the release of the previous update, the company release it's Visual Studio Update 2, as part of the their pledge to ship updates for Visual Studio in "a regular cadence." The VS Update 2 is mainly for bug fixes and performance

Microsoft announced that their Microsoft developer tools are adding support to decentralized source code version control using Git. The highly-popular Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server are to support Git. The Team Foundation Service will host and support Git repositories. In addition, Visual Studio will also have Git support. In view of this announcement, Microsoft has released a Community

Contrary to the recent news posted by BBC with the headline "Microsoft shares source code for Kinect gadget," this isn't the case, Microsoft has open sourced SOME samples that use the Kinect, not open sourcing all the codes. According to the news item, "Before now anyone wanting to use the Kinect had to work via an official software toolkit that hid the underlying code." There's a little bit of

The world's leading software company, Microsoft was fined by the European Commission after making an error for a single line of code. The error caused the company a whopping $731 Million fined. The European Union's anti-trust authority, European Commission, stated that the fined was due to the violation of a 2009 agreement between Microsoft and the European Commission. Last 2009, Microsoft agreed

Microsoft have already confirmed that they have already phased out their Direct X Programs but clarifies that XNA is up and running. According to Promit Roy, the technical lead at the Action Equals Equation Labs, the man who made the first email public announcing that Microsoft Phases our XNA and DirectX. Rumors have already spread among the developers that the DirectX is no longer evolving a

The hottest operating system (OS) from tech giant Microsoft, the Windows 8 OS have already sold more than 60 Million Licenses. The announcement was made during the 11th Annual J.P. Morgan Tech Forum at CES 2013 on January 8, 2013 (ET). According to Windows Chief Marketing Officer and Chief Financial Officer Tami Reller, the 60 Million figures represents cumulative sales of Windows 8 including both