Microsoft announced today the release of Web Platform Installer (Web PI) 1.0, a free downloadable tool designed to help install the Microsoft Web Platform or its components. The whole platform can be ...

As part of the launch of its flagship database and development tool, Microsoft on Monday is expected to unveil a program to entice Web hosting companies to use its server software, an important avenue ...

Web App Installer from Redmond provides a single way for developers to gather ASP.NET- and PHP-based open source Web apps. In its latest bid to keep Web developers in the fold, Microsoft has developed ...

Microsoft has begun delivering some of the additional HTML5 tooling for Visual Studio programmers that company officials said would be coming some time this year. The first of the Web Standards ...

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Microsoft officials are undaunted by the popular LAMP (Linux Apache MySQL Perl/Python/PHP) application stack that serves as an open source rival to the Microsoft .Net platform. Touring to promote the ...

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Aiming to reach a larger audience of software developers, Microsoft Corp. on Tuesday announced slimmed-down “Express” editions of its Visual Studio developer tool for specific programming languages.