JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge. As those new products come to market, it's important to ...

At the Build 2018 developer conference that's taking place these days in Seattle, USA, Microsoft announced support for custom JavaScript functions in Excel. What this means is that Excel users will be ...

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 custom ...

The Microsoft JavaScript Upshot library provides a simplified API for retrieving data from the server and caching it at the client for reuse. Coupled with Knockout, the two JavaScript libraries form ...

On Monday at its Build conference in Seattle, Microsoft announced a host of software products and updates related to buzzy technologies like machine learning and mixed reality. But the company also ...

Equipping JavaScript to build more complex applications, Microsoft has augmented JavaScript with a set of advanced development capabilities typically found in more mature programming languages, such ...

Following Microsoft announcing it would open-source its Chakra JavaScript engine late last year, the company has done exactly that, uploading it to GitHub today. ChakraCore is a self-contained ...

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

For all JavaScript’s prominence as the lingua franca of Web development, there are an awful lot of developers who don’t like it a whole lot, and as a result, a great many efforts to produce something ...