COBOL offers the promise of job security and above-average pay. Even some of the cool kids are doing it.
The Xamarin acquisition proves Microsoft is more interested in its developer tools than its own struggling phone operating system.
Artificial intelligence may be coming to your IT department sooner than you think, but not the way you might imagine.
Microsoft's business strategy for the cloud appears to amount to this: ‘Be more like Apple.’ Here’s why that approach works.
While they can’t necessarily replace a college degree, MOOCs are playing a key role in addressing the software development skills gap.
Industry giants like Google, Facebook and Ericsson have already solved many of the large-scale problems that smaller companies are now facing.
Tomorrow's IT projects will use rapidly assembled casts of specialists, with a digital strategy officer role emerging to take the lead as the project producer and director.
Citizen developers can produce valuable businesses applications quickly, but is speed to market worth the risk of security and compliance considerations flying out of the window?
By offering big data services in its Azure cloud on Linux, Microsoft is sending several important messages to customers.
What can developers learn from the steady decline of the once-popular multimedia platform? And what should they do to prepare for Flash’s imminent demise?
