Windows, for years now, has been able to run Microsoft’s version of JavaScript, called JScript. The fish bowl that JScript was designed to live inside was not a web page, but Windows itself.

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 ...

Hadoop on Windows Azure had no documentation and there were no manuals showing how to optimize JavaScript queries. On the other hand, HiveQL had been built on top of Apache Hadoop long before ...

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.

The second chapter of Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript covers animation with CSS and introduces CSS transforms before concluding with brief discussion of CSS media queries.

Microsoft first released this library in 2011 so developers could build Windows applications both for Windows Phone and the Windows 8 Modern interfaces using JavaScript, along with HTML, CSS and ...

The Windows development community is a “huge ecosystem,” he said, made up of 600,000 developers. “They won’t just orphan code with Windows 8,” he said.