On the back of Mix '06 and Microsoft's big Web push, the Redmond company has just released a new Development Center as part of MSDN (Microsoft Developer Network) - this one for Windows Live. "The ...

It's Linux, rather than the Web browser, that's stealing developer attention away from desktop Windows, according to Evans Data. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge ...

Fewer developers are making applications for Microsoft's Windows operating system, a survey has revealed. According to analysts at the Evans Data Corporation research house, 64.8 percent of North ...

Microsoft's security-assurance group has become the software giant's taskmaster for the next month. Under a new push to secure software code and convince customers that security is a top priority, ...

Microsoft today announced it is merging the online developer resources (education materials, guidance, code samples, and reference documentation) for Windows Store and Windows Phone. At the same time, ...

Microsoft recently updated guides for developers regarding Universal Windows Platform (UWP) apps. The company is now showing developers how they can migrate their UWP apps to the newer Windows App SDK ...

At its Build conference in May, Microsoft debuted Project Volterra, a device powered by Qualcomm’s Snapdragon platform designed to let developers explore “AI scenarios” via Qualcomm’s Neural ...

Apple's Swift programming language officially landed on Windows this week, with Swift toolchain images now available for download from the open source project. Announced in a blog post on Tuesday, the ...

Microsoft confirmed today that it will hand out preview copies of Windows 7 to attendees at next month’s Professional Developers Conference (PDC). In a post to the PDC Web site, Microsoft said that ...

With the release of macOS Sonoma, Apple has also updated the current versions of Metal developer tools for use in Windows. Here's how to get and use them. Metal is Apple's graphics framework for macOS ...

Game developers are now able to more easily develop games for Apple devices using Windows machines, thanks to a new set of Metal developer tools released by Apple (via Reddit). Apple quietly released ...