Tag: Microsoft
ISO C++ Chair Herb Sutter leaves Microsoft, declares forthcoming C++ 26 ‘most impactful release since C++11’
Herb Sutter, chair of the ISO C++ ISO C++ committee, has left Microsoft after 22 years, to become […]
Visual Basic 6 recreated as a cross-platform IDE in modern .NET – just ‘for fun’
Software engineer Bartosz Korczynski has created what he calls “a recreation of the classic Visual Basic 6 (VB […]
Microsoft engineer describes a flaw in Git that can hugely bloat repositories – fix is on the way
A flaw in the way Git calculates the difference between versions of the same file can bloat repositories […]
VS Code migration to ECMAScript modules ‘massively improves startup performance’ – but extensions left behind for now
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.94, the first stable version to be built with ECMAScript Modules (ESM), […]
Microsoft previews unified .NET API for AI, and delivers .NET 9 Release Candidate with go-live license
Microsoft has previewed an AI extension library which it hopes will form a unified API for AI programming […]
Python 3.13 delayed by ‘drastic change’ removal of incremental garbage collector
The full release of CPython 3.13 has been delayed by a week in order to remove the incremental […]
Why Windows 11 24H2 is a big yawn for developers
The great Windows 11 24H2 roll-out started this week, the major annual feature update for Microsoft’s ubiquitous operating […]
Microsoft Office development kit in public preview for Visual Studio Code – looks far from ready
Microsoft has released a public preview of an Office development kit for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) – […]
Visual Studio Code is migrating its own source code to ECMAScript modules
Microsoft is releasing version 1.93 of Visual Studio Code (VS Code), the most widely used programmer’s editor and […]
Microsoft makes breaking change in .NET 9 for security, leaves .NET Framework insecure
Microsoft is removing the BinaryFormatter class from .NET 9 – the forthcoming version to be released later this […]