Microsoft recently created a stir after revealing it was taking some ideas from the popular Rust programming language to create a new language for 'safe infrastructure programming' under the banner ...

Microsoft has announced an early public preview of Rust/WinRT, or Rust for the Windows Runtime (WinRT), and has posted it on GitHub. The Rust/WinRT project is a "WinRT language projection" or software ...

Soon to be open source, Project Verona takes a different approach to object ownership and concurrency to ensure safe memory management Microsoft has found that approximately 70 percent of the security ...

Although Project Ire is a prototype, Microsoft says the 'AI agent' can (in some cases) reverse engineer any type of software on its own to determine if it's malicious. Microsoft says it’s developed a ...

Amy Nichol Smith spent more than 20 years working as a journalist for TV and newspapers before transitioning to software and hardware product reviews for consumers and small businesses. She has been ...

Microsoft is boosting integration of functional programming with its Visual Studio 2008 software development platform. Improved integration is featured in a September Community Technology Preview of ...