Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was initially called Altair BASIC before becoming Microsoft BASIC, and it was ...

Microsoft's open-source programming language TypeScript – the alter ego of JavaScript but with a type system – turns 10 years old this December. It's grown to become a go-to language for building apps ...

Microsoft’s superset of JavaScript, TypeScript, has shot up to become the fourth most popular programming language on code collaboration platform, GitHub. TypeScript’s ascent is tracked in ...

Google and Microsoft are investing heavily in the future of the Python and Rust programming languages. Corporate sponsorships of foundations that support different technologies have long been a way ...

A senior engineer at Microsoft has outlined a long-term research effort that looks at drastically reducing the company’s use of the C and C++ programming languages by the year 2030. The two languages ...

Microsoft is attempting to make Excel a more powerful application. According to the company, Excel formulas are written by a significantly larger number of people than all C, C++, C#, Java and Python ...