Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Apps that use the “new Windows” approach to programming will be built in HTML and JavaScript, said Windows president Steven Sinofsky at D9’s Windows 8 announcement today. Windows 8 will run ...

When Microsoft gave the first public demonstration of Windows 8 a week ago, the reaction from most circles was positive. The new Windows 8 user interface looks clean, attractive, and thoughtful, and ...

While Microsoft embraces HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8, outside developers wonder about Silverlight and .Net Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, ...

. The section on media elements provides detailed coverage of the and elements. Like the first chapter, Chapter 2 focuses mostly on a general web concept, in this case Cascading Style Sheets (CSS).

Microsoft officials have made it clear that HTML5 and JavaScript are going to be key for developing for Windows 8. But Microsoft's HTML5/JS love doesn't stop there. It turns out that HTML5 and ...

Citing a demo of Windows 8 given by Microsoft Vice President Julie Larson-Green at the recent D9 conference, Ars Technica author Peter Bright called attention to a comment several minutes into the ...

Sports Illustrated’s Windows 8 app, one of Ratio’s projects, is part of an effort to go beyond boilerplate design. The home of Ratio Interactive, in the heart of Seattle’s Pioneer Square, is at first ...

Microsoft's Windows 8 planning, coding and testing efforts comprise about 35 teams, with each team responsible for a single feature area of the operating system, an executive of the company explained.

Microsoft has been burned in the past by revealing too much about upcoming products, which has led, at times, to over-promising. That hasn't been the case with Windows 8, which has been developed with ...

Thanks to two brief demonstrations of Microsoft’s next-generation operating system, third-party Microsoft Windows developers are expressing frustration over what they consider a lack of clear ...