If Microsoft made JavaScript a foundational scripting language for the entire Windows platform, it would be a valuable tool for users and developers alike (and developers wouldn’t have to feel ...

Microsoft's tutorials also assist participants setting up a development environment with Microsoft's popular Visual Studio Code editor, as well as installing Node.js as a JavaScript runtime.

Microsoft is looking to improve Web performance in Windows 10 by bringing in Mozilla’s asm.js JavaScript subset, for inclusion in Microsoft’s Chakra JavaScript engine.

Yohan Lasorsa, a senior Microsoft cloud developer advocate and main host of the Node.js series, recommends students complete the JavaScript video series before starting the Node.js series.

Microsoft announced it has open-sourced its ChakraCore JavaScript engine that powers its Edge Web browser. The company initially laid out its plans to open-source the technology last month in a ...

Microsoft first released this library in 2011 so developers could build Windows applications both for Windows Phone and the Windows 8 Modern interfaces using JavaScript, along with HTML, CSS and ...

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Microsoft describes ChakraCore as a fully fledged, self-contained JavaScript virtual machine that can be embedded in derivative products and power applications that need “scriptability” such ...

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...

Microsoft last week revealed that it will release the core components of its Chakra JavaScript engine to open source as ChakraCore.It will be available next month on GitHub under the MIT license.

Now, Microsoft released another tool in the augmented reality developer’s kit with HoloJS, a way to create UWP apps supporting HoloLens using JavaScript and WebGL, MSPoweruser reports.