Microsoft has made it incredibly easy to install Visual Studio Code for Java. A developer needs only to download Visual Studio's Java coding pack from Microsoft, and the installer takes care of the ...

This repository is a Virtual Monolithic Repository (VMR) which includes all the source code and infrastructure needed to build the .NET SDK. The main purpose of the dotnet/dotnet repository is to have ...

Bill Gates has written a lot of books, but they've all stuck to a few similar themes. They've mostly been about the future, technological changes coming in society, things like that. And true to his ...

There is utility to be had in Bill Gates’s memoir of childhood, Source Code: My Beginnings (Knopf, Feb. 4), but there is also joy: the joy at marveling at genius coming into focus — confident, ...

Arguments about what is and isn't open source can be resolved by deferring to the OSI's definition -- but there is much more ...

Despite major changes in licensing and costs, the programming language is still a dominant force in software development.

As I fire up the laptop to write this review, a company called Microsoft — or Micro-Soft as it started — asks me for an ...