Microsoft has officially launched the next generation of its developer tool suite with Visual Studio 2012

Micro Focus and Microsoft are to integrate Visual Studio tools with Micro Focus' COBOL programming environment

Microsoft is expected to unveil the “Release Preview” of Windows 8 today, coupled with a preview of Visual Studio 2012

Visual Studio 11, Microsoft's flagship development platform with Windows 8 support, will include improved support for JavaScript developers

Microsoft has released a preview, codenamed Roslyn, that opens up C# and Visual Basic APIs

Microsoft's August Patch Tuesday fixes bugs in Internet Explorer, Windows desktop and server, and Visio

Microsoft will release 16 bulletins next week for 34 vulnerabilities in Windows, Excel, IE and SQL Server

Rackspace has released a plug-in to allow Visual Studio 2010 .NET developers to deploy applications directly into its cloud infrastructure