Microsoft patches Exchange Server zero-day exploited in attacks

Microsoft has patched an actively exploited Exchange Server vulnerability that allows threat actors to execute arbitrary ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Axing VBScript in Favor of JavaScript/PowerShell: Here's the Timeline

Microsoft is deprecating VBScript in favor of "more advanced" alternatives like JavaScript and PowerShell. The company today (May 30) detailed how the phase-out will occur in three stages, the final ...
Visual Studio Magazine

Microsoft Tests Copilot-Powered Tool to Modernize JavaScript/TypeScript in VS Code

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...
Ars Technica

Microsoft TypeScript: the JavaScript we need, or a solution looking for a problem?

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 ...
InfoWorld

Mozilla, Microsoft drawing sabers over next JavaScript

Brendan Eich, creator of JavaScript and now CTO at Mozilla, and Microsoft's Chris Wilson are in sharp disagreement over the next version of JavaScript Mozilla CTO Brendan Eich and Microsoft’s Chris ...