Forget all this touchy-feely open-source LAMP stack stuff--throw away your SQL Server and run our MySQL database on Windows. Okay, maybe the message wasn't quite that stark, but there's no doubt ...

In a dramatic shift, Microsoft takes a big step into open source, with the aim of spreading Microsoft development across iOS, Android, OS X, and Linux Microsoft’s long and contentious relationship ...

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Linux vendor Novell is offering a new commercial add-in for Visual Studio that will allow software developers to test and package .NET applications for Linux without having to leave their Windows ...

As Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4 edge toward production release, Microsoft shops should be assessing when best to make the switch I recently sat down with my new employers to plan out our ...

Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages. In ...