Microsoft is likely to add HTML5 and JavaScript to its programming options -- but there's no reason to believe VBA, VSTO, and .Net are out Once again, the blogosphere is atwitter over something stupid ...

Microsoft is considering adding Python as one of the official Excel scripting languages, according to a topic on Excel's feedback hub opened last month. Since it was opened, the topic has become the ...

Microsoft has released a new public preview of its Power Apps mobile app for iOS and Android that runs both 'canvas' and 'model-driven' apps. Microsoft's Power Apps is an example of a 'low-code' tool ...

Showing developers how to build smarter apps is going to be one of the pillars of Microsoft's Build 2016 conference next week. At the heart of that lesson will be Microsoft Graph, the technology ...

The OpenOffice.org group announces a kit that lets programmers build new modules for open-source alternatives to the Microsoft Office suite. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

A decade ago when Microsoft asked: Where do you want to go today? It didn't really mean we could go anywhere, in a truly open software sense of the term. They (it, the firm) really meant: Where do you ...

Microsoft has released a new software development kit for programmers interested in working with the company's controversial Open Office XML file formats (the name has since been shortened to the ...