The JavaScript video series for beginners follows a similar structure to the 44-part Python series Microsoft launched on YouTube in September last year, offering students lessons in the language ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...

Developers must be masochists. How else to explain all the negative reactions to Microsoft’s newfound enthusiasm for HTML5 and JavaScript? First Microsoft said it would integrate the Web ...

To these existing solutions, we have a newcomer from Microsoft, called TypeScript. TypeScript is a new language that's based on JavaScript, and which compiles to JavaScript, but which ...

Microsoft has pumped out 26 new short videos on YouTube offering beginners a path to learn about Node.js, the server-side JavaScript runtime environment for building ...

Learn More. Microsoft has announced a new programming language, known as TypeScript, which is aimed at being a better JavaScript for building large-scale, enterprise-class applications.

While the race to make the fastest browser JavaScript engine continues at a heated pace, Microsoft senior product manager Pete LePage reminded the audience at Microsoft TechEd, held in New Orleans ...

With the open-sourcing of its Windows Library for JavaScript (WinJS) this week, Microsoft is looking to get the technology spread to multiple browsers and platforms beyond Windows — and that ...

Learn More. Microsoft announced it is open-sourcing Chakra, the JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser. The company made the announcement today at the JSConf US Last Call in Amelia ...

But, JavaScript let loose on a Windows machine is an entirely different matter. Windows, for years now, has been able to run Microsoft’s version of JavaScript, called JScript. The fish bowl that ...

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 ...