Microsoft today announced it has started delivering Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview kits to developers who signed up for the $399 program. The Developer Preview includes a pre-release Kinect ...

The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month. Microsoft ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 SDK is now expected around the time Windows Phone 8 itself launches, which is expected to be October 29. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

A C compiler and development system for DOS/Windows applications from Microsoft. It includes the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Version 7.0 added C++ capability and Version 1.0 of the ...

Object-oriented languages are particularly well suited to application development — in part because they’re well suited to software modeling. An application programming interface (API) such as the ...