Microsoft has a reputation for modifying external technology when adopting it. But in the case of Hadoop, Microsoft is so far staying true to the core technology, providing optional integration ...

And this duality extends beyond the Web. Windows Script Host (WSH), for the creation of Windows scripts that took batch file developers to the next level, also supported both languages. The successor ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel.

It’s been a long time since Microsoft brewed its own Java. But now it’s back, with the Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, fit and finished for running in the Azure cloud.

Essentially, a Loop document will look like a shared document, but Microsoft imagines they’ll be populated by drag-and-drop Loop “components,” or small blocks of code that can be added for a ...

The Microsoft Java Virtual Machine, or MS Java VM, is used to run Java applets that can be found on web sites. When you visit a web site that has a Java applet, the MS JVM will compile and execute ...

Microsoft Build of OpenJDK, the company’s open source distribution of Java, has added an experimental feature to improve escape analysis compiler optimization results.. With a patch and security ...