Microsoft is guiding developers toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 app development. It turns out the company also is pushing these Web technologies as key to extending Office 15 and Office 365.

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 ...

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 ...

In a new post on the Internet Explorer developer blog, Microsoft goes over some of the changes it has made to Internet Explorer 10 for Windows 8 in terms of improving JavaScript performance.

Ars Technica says Microsoft's apparent shift of focus toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 coding has got Windows developers in an uproar.