Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for 'safe infrastructure programming' under the banner ...

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Centralized management of approvals is now possible with the new BrightWork Approvals section in the Admin Area. Approval ...

It's been a while since the Redmondians have talked up "Dryad," Microsoft's answer to Google's MapReduce and Apache's Hadoop. (I think the last time Dryad got any coverage outside the research ...

Microsoft has announced that support for the F# functional programming language will be fully integrated into Visual Studio. This marks a bold new commitment to facilitating functional programming on ...

Soon to be open source, Project Verona takes a different approach to object ownership and concurrency to ensure safe memory management Microsoft has found that approximately 70 percent of the security ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Back in 2017, Microsoft unveiled Project Torino, a unique physical programming language that taught visually impaired kids the basics of coding. It was a huge step forward for accessibility, but it ...

In 2014, Microsoft launched Project Alexandria, a research effort within its Cambridge research division dedicated to discovering entities — topics of information — and their associated properties.