More often than most IT managers care to admit, upgrading one part of a software and application infrastructure forces more changes down the line. To the extent that these changes require reparations ...

Find out how source code is compiled for different programming languages and computer architectures, including the evolution from FORTRAN to CLR and JIT compilers.

Did you know that, between 1976 and 1978, Microsoft developed its own version of the BASIC programming language? It was ...

Microsoft Corp. is expanding a source-code sharing program for its Windows CE mobile operating system and giving users and software developers the ability to alter the code, provided that they do ...

Microsoft called the code—written by the company’s founder, Bill Gates, and its second-ever employee, Ric Weiland—”one of the ...

Specifically, it's a port of BASIC, the OS that founders Bill Gates and Paul Allen developed for use on the Intel ...

Open-source projects such as operating systems often rely on human review of all new code to detect any potentially malicious contributions by volunteers.

The software giant will retain the right to include any commercially used modifications made by licensees of its Windows CE source code in future versions of that operating system.

The program will explore full feature spaces in binary code and source code files to measure the similarity between files and provide information to forensic experts to the likely origins (country, ...