I'm resuming my Microsoft Code Name a Day series that I started in December 2006. The goal: To provide the back story, each day in August, on one of Microsoft's myriad code names. Some of these ...

Today's Microsoft Code Name of the Day: Volta. Volta, named for the father of the "volt" unit of power, is a Microsoft research project dedicated to "stretching the .Net programming model to cover ...

Fortunately, there are people around the world who work hard at preserving these older systems and give us a living, working ...

Color and triangles It can store a lot more information than the plain old vanilla code beloved of dystopian Sci-Fi tattoos, and more even than the DataMatrix 2D barcode which is so big in Japan ...

After a weekend of rumors, Microsoft officially announced Monday that it will acquire the code repository site GitHub for $7.5 billion in stock. The platform is an important resource for some 28 ...

Interview: Stephen Toulouse discusses how Microsoft's programmers now develop code with security in mind ...

Eighteen years ago, a code-signing issue with Small Business Server 2003 caused problems for early installations. Last week, a similar problem has cropped up in Windows 11.

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

Today, Microsoft announced it is acquiring the company GitHub for $7.5 billion. If you're at all plugged into the broader world of tech, you've no doubt heard of both companies. But unless you're ...

Microsoft is joining hands with Code.org to bring Minecraft to a major coding event next month.