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 ...

That was almost 50 years ago; since then, Microsoft has embraced open-source software. In recent years, Microsoft has started releasing some of its classic operating systems and programs as open ...

Visual Basic .Net might not be the coolest programming language to know, but it remains popular and has now reached its highest position on the Tiobe index of top programming languages. In the ...

Wipro's Designit CEO Mikal Hallstrup tells me about acquiring the consulting firm of Visual Basic creator Alan Cooper, just as AI begins to shake up UX Designit, the global design consultancy acquired ...

One of the most powerful features of language-based generative AI tools like ChatGPT, Microsoft's Copilot, or AWS Code Whisperer is the ability to create computer code. After all, code is just another ...

The TIOBE Index is an indicator of which programming languages are most popular within a given month. Each month, we examine ...

My December print column, called Frameworks, is about Microsoft's Small Basic programming language, and how it makes it easy for kids as young as 10 to learn the basics of coding. I wanted to expand ...

At a developer conference next week, Microsoft will hand out a "technology preview" of the development tool as well as release new software. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green tech and ...

Software to be formally introduced later this year will link the Ruby programming language and the open-source Ruby on Rails Web framework to Microsoft’s Visual Studio 2005 application development ...

Whether you're writing the next hit computer game or creating a simple drawing program, you may need to know where a user's mouse cursor lies on the computer screen. Visual Basic developers have a ...