Microsoft Research is working on a new programming language designed around cloud-first development and artificial intelligence. As part of its work, the company announced new capabilities for the Bosque programming language created to support automated reasoning tools. According to Microsoft, Bosque derives from a combination of TypeScript inspired syntax and types plus ML and Node/JavaScript … continue reading
Microsoft is releasing the latest version of TypeScript. TypeScript 3.9 introduces speed improvements to the compiler and editing experience and reduces bugs and crashes. The team accepted a number of pull requests that optimize speed, each of which should reduce compile times by 5-10%. “Our team has been focusing on performance after observing extremely poor … continue reading
Microsoft has revealed it is renaming Visual Studio Online to Visual Studio Codespaces. The company found developers were using Visual Studio Online as much more than “just an editor in the browser,” so it decided to rename the product to better align with its value. “Do you want a great experience working on your long-term … continue reading
Microsoft’s .NET 5.0 Preview 3 contains new features and performance improvements. This includes code quality improvements in RyuJIT, System.Text.Json improvements such as added support for preserve references on JSON dotnet/runtime #655, and .NET SDK Support for .NET Framework Assemblies. Microsoft said it is still working on the bigger features that will define the 5.0 release. … continue reading
Microsoft is hoping to address what it is calling the “data divide” with the Open Data Campaign. The new initiative aims to help organizations across the industry realize the benefits of data. According to Microsoft, while there has been tremendous growth in data and AI, these technologies are concentrated in just a few companies. For … continue reading
Microsoft has been collecting 13 million work items and bugs since 2001, and used that data to create a machine learning model to fight software bugs. According to the company, the model distinguishes between security and non-security bugs 99% of the time and identify the high-priority bugs 97% of the time. “At Microsoft, 47,000 developers … continue reading
C++20 Concepts are now supported for the first time in Visual Studio 2019 version 16.3 Preview 2. This includes both the compiler and standard library support. Concepts are predicates that you use to express a generic algorithm’s expectations on its template arguments, and they allow developers to formally document constraints on templates and have the … continue reading
Microsoft has long been calling for stricter regulation of facial recognition technology, and now is revealing the progress it has made since its 2018 call for the government to publicly regulate the technology. Since their public call in 2018, a number of countries have banned or put moratoriums on the use of the technology, but … continue reading
Microsoft announced the .NET 5.0 Preview 2, which contains a set of smaller features and performance improvements. This includes code quality improvements in RyuJIT and changes to the garbage collector. The company said it is continuing to work on bigger features for the 5.0, some of which are starting to show up as initial designs … continue reading
Microsoft has announced the release of Coyote, an open-source .NET framework that guides developers toward designing, implementing, and testing code in a way that embraces non-determinism and asynchrony and to help them create asynchronous systems. The testing tool controls every source of non-determinism defined, including the exact order of every asynchronous operation, which allows it … continue reading
GitLab 12.9 was released to help developers achieve enhanced security with the management of secrets via the HashiCorp Vault managed application, better visibility with code quality reports & customizable value stream analytics, and easier administration with group deploy tokens. When Container Scanning detects vulnerabilities, GitLab 12.9 can now give a suggested solution for the vulnerability, … continue reading
Neo4j has released a new business intelligence (BI) connector designed to bring live graph datasets to popular BI technologies such as Tableau, Looker, TIBCO Spotfire, Oracle Analytics Cloud and MicroStrategy. The Neo4j BI Connector also allows users to create the visualizations and dashboards that will help extract the hidden value in data, and service to … continue reading
