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Microsoft Has Open Sourced the VS Code Language Server Protocol
Microsoft has open sourced the protocol used by VS Code’s editor to communicate with the various language servers supported.
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Checked C - A Safer C/C++ from Microsoft
Microsoft has open sourced Checked C, a research project meant to add bounds checking to C and C++.
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MSDN/TechNet Being Replaced by Open Source Project docs.microsoft.com
After 15 years of running on a “brittle codebase with an archaic publishing and deployment system”, Microsoft has finally decided to retire MSDN and TechNet. The replacement will be an open source project known as docs.microsoft.com.
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Microsoft Graph Unifies Access to All APIs
At the Microsoft Build conference in San Francisco, InfoQ had the opportunity to speak with Gareth Jones, API architect for the Microsoft Graph API which aims at making life easier for developers by providing a unified API endpoint. With the prevalence of Microsoft products in most businesses around the world, it is interesting to see how Microsoft solves this issue at their scale.
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Microsoft Supports React Native on UWP, Adds Tooling to VS Code
Microsoft and Facebook have announced that the Universal Windows Platform will be the next platform to support React Native. Aiding developers build React Native apps on Windows, Microsoft also released a React Native extension for Visual Studio Code that provides debugging and IntelliSense in their cross-platform code editor.
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Visual Studio Code 1.0 Released: 100+ Languages, 300+ PRs, 1,000+ Extensions
Microsoft has released Visual Studio Code 1.0, a year after its initial preview.
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Universal Windows Platform - Walled Garden vs Open System
Epic Games cofounder Tim Sweeney has created a furor over the state of Microsoft's Universal Windows Platform and whether it threatens the historical open nature of the Windows PC.
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Microsoft SQL Server to Land on Linux
Microsoft’s executive vice president of the cloud and enterprise group Scott Guthrie announced SQL Server is coming to Linux, thus once more confirming Microsoft’s new course on open source software. SQL Server will be generally available on Linux sometime mid 2017, with a private preview being available now.
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OCF, AllSeen, Microsoft and the Future of IoT
There are three major groups attempting to standardize a solution for IoT connectivity: OCF, AllSeen Alliance and Thread Group. Will they go on divergent paths or join efforts behind one body that will standardize the communications between all IoT devices?
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TypeScript 1.8 Brings Module Augmentation Support
Microsoft has released TypeScript 1.8, bringing the ability to use JavaScript code within a TypeScript project, and full support for module augmentation.
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Microsoft’s Acquisition of Xamarin is Good News for C# Developers
Microsoft has closed the deal with cross-platform mobile software development specialist Xamarin to buy the company and their technology. It is expected for most of Xamarin's technological assets to be integrated into Microsoft, benefiting the developers.
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Microsoft Open Sources Chakra and Wants to Run Node.js on It
True to their promise to open up the Edge’s JavaScript VM, Microsoft has made available the source code of Chakra under the permissive MIT license. Released under the name ChakraCore, the code is basically the same VM Microsoft uses for Edge and the Universal Windows Platform (UWP) minus the bindings to Edge and UWP and some COM diagnostic APIs.
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Microsoft Soon to End Support for IE 8, 9 and 10
Microsoft is to stop supporting IE 8, 9 and 10, inviting users to switch to IE 11 or Edge.
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IronFleet: A Methodology for Proving Distributed Systems
A group of researchers from Microsoft has published the paper “IronFleet: Proving Practical Distributed Systems Correct” (PDF) and made available the accompanying source code demonstrating the use of the methodology in machine proving the correctness of a non-trivial distributed system from a safety and liveliness point of view.
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Amazon Introduces AWS Directory Service for Microsoft Active Directory
On December 3rd, 2015 Amazon announced a new service that allows customers to provision a Microsoft Active Directory managed service in Amazon Web Services (AWS). The service, also referred to as Microsoft AD, uses directory capabilities found in Microsoft Windows Server 2012 R2.