Satya Nadella's $7.5 billion deal to acquire GitHub could bring more developers into Microsoft's cloud applications fold. If that results in faster revenue growth, Microsoft investors will benefit.

GitHub is the largest repository of open source software in the world. Everyone from Microsoft, which acquired the company last year, to Google to Walmart use it to host their open source projects ...

Microsoft is acquiring npm, a major JavaScript-developer platform, which it is planning to integrate with GitHub. Written by Mary Jo Foley, Senior Contributing Editor March 16, 2020 at 10:30 a.m ...

Thanks to a shared JavaScript runtime, Quark sketches consume only a few kilobytes instead of hundreds of megabytes for the typical Electron app. This is because the runtime accounts for about 99 ...

The app includes several old software packages that one would have found for Macs of that era, including Photoshop 3, Premiere 4, Illustrator 5.5, StuffIt Expander, Apple's Web Page Construction ...