A Microsoft director explains why it's finally ending language updates for Visual Basic, a programming language launched in 1991 that 700,000 developers still rely on every month

Microsoft's Visual Basic was named the "Most Dreaded" programming language for three years in a row by the Stack Overflow Developer Survey.
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Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu

Microsoft’s Mu Brings Natural Language Chats to Windows 11’s Settings Menu Your email has been sent A screenshot of Mu performing real-time question answering. Image: Windows YouTube channel Microsoft ...
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Hands On: Learning Monad, the scripting language for Windows Vista

Monad, also known more formally as the MSH Command Shell, is a next generation Windows command shell. Built on top of the .NET Framework, MSH provides a powerful infrastructure for the automation of a ...
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MS-BASIC 1.1 introduced programming to a generation - now you can download it for free

Microsoft open-sourced the MS-BASIC language. Bill Gates would never have seen this coming back in the day. MS-BASIC 1.1 was many developers' first language. In 1976, they rebranded Altair BASIC to ...
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Learning Monad, Part 2: Delve into the registry

Monad with permission of O’Reilly Media Inc., all rights reserved. Part 2 of four parts. Yesterday: Hands On: Learning Monad, the scripting language for Windows ...