Microsoft Corp. has cancelled its fall developer conference, citing inconvenient timing for the show in light of the launch of important new infrastructure and developer-platform products. Microsoft ...

Microsoft said Tuesday that subscribers to the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN) could download the release candidates for Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 immediately and that the RCs would ...

Microsoft announced a corporate restructuring Tuesday that coalesces several units related to software development into a new division. The Developer and Platform Evangelism Division will include ...

Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and cutting-edge technologies. He joined CNET in 2002 to cover enterprise IT and Web development and was previously executive editor of IT ...

Microsoft is adding Web logs published by its employees to its Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), the company’s main site for software developers. The almost 100 Web logs, or blogs, are currently ...

Microsoft Corp. has quietly expanded its Microsoft Developer Network with a Web site that combines a host of social networking technologies in a move to improve communications with outside software ...

While observers believe that Microsoft is willing to pay Yahoo US$44 billion primarily for its users and advertising base, Microsoft’s chief software architect, Ray Ozzie, wants to grow its developer ...

Microsoft plans to backport a “ribbon” user interface feature it introduced in Windows 7 to Windows Vista, according to the company’s developer Web site. On the Microsoft Developer Network (MSDN), ...

LOS ANGELES — Microsoft’s Surface touch computer may be generating more oohs and ahs than some of the company’s other recent technologies, but the product has yet to generate rabid interest among ...

Microsoft on Wednesday posted to its Web site new software development tools key to its .Net software-as-a-service plan. The company said its Visual Studio.Net development tool package is available to ...