Never mind the complaints: JavaScript scripting is the best way forward for Microsoft Office and the Windows platform.

Microsoft is guiding developers toward HTML5 and JavaScript for Windows 8 app development. It turns out the company also is pushing these Web technologies as key to extending Office 15 and Office 365.

Enabling JavaScript should make Excel more powerful, but increasing access points makes it even more of a web security nightmare than it already is.

Why are Google and Microsoft To create complex web applications, 'high-level language to Javascript' compilers have come into play. so intent on Javascript compiler technology? The simple answer ...

JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave of Microsoft products is huge.

Microsoft has officially open-sourced key components of its Chakra JavaScript engine under the name ChakraCore and published it on GitHub.

Microsoft does JavaScript one better with a new programming language, TypeScript, that enables JavaScript developers to build application-scale apps. The TypeScript project was led by Anders ...

Microsoft announced that it's reached an agreement to acquire npm. npm has a massive repository of over 1.3 million packages. Now, Microsoft can help grow the JavaScript ecosystem and ...

Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Microsoft is opening up Excel to developers with a new JavaScript API. It will let developers use custom data types like images, cards, and arrays.

At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create ...