An icon in the shape of a lightning bolt. Impact Link Microsoft is currently embroiled in a controversy over its treatment of female employees that has risen all the way to the attention of Microsoft ...

A game programmer has departed from Microsoft to join Sony Computer Entertainment, it has been revealed. Having previously worked on titles in the Halo franchise, Corrinne Yu now works for Uncharted ...

Paul Allen, the taciturn computer programmer who founded the software behemoth Microsoft with Bill Gates when he was 22 and walked away eight years later with what would become one of the largest ...

A senior Microsoft programmer for Windows Phone 7 has been fired for tweeting confidential information. Joe Marini, who had been employed by Microsoft since 2003 as principal program manager for the ...

Microsoft launched a new Web site on March 1, its Beginner Developer Learning Center (BDLC), with the aim of bringing more "non-professional" programmers into the Microsoft fold. The new site is ...

Through the looking glass: The .NET framework was originally developed by Microsoft in the early 2000s to simplify software development on Windows. The technology was later ported to other computing ...