Microsoft Corp. is encouraging small software developers to build extensions such as compilers for its Visual Studio .Net development tool by offering free access to the Visual Studio Industry Partner ...

Julia Liuson, president of Microsoft's developer division and a 34-year company veteran, is retiring in June, she told ...

Microsoft will soon release tools and methods it has used over the last few years to reduce the number of security problems in its software. Microsoft began to take security seriously around 2001.

Microsoft Corp. has quietly expanded its Microsoft Developer Network with a Web site that combines a host of social networking technologies in a move to improve communications with outside software ...

Despite comments from a Microsoft executive in testimony released last week in which he called software developers “pawns,” the company’s success at wooing third-party software developers has long ...

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