The .NET framework allows cross-platform development on Windows and Mac, and Microsoft released version 8 for both in November. Here's what that means to developers. In the late 1990s, Microsoft began ...

[*]Because they are starting over again, and with more stringent performance, it will probably be less capable / full-featured than current Silverlight/.NET, like going backwards to Silverlight 3 ...

New figures show that Windows 8 usage a month after launchparallels that of Windows Vista rather than Windows 7 — one more piece of evidence that Windows 8’s launch has been a poor one for Microsoft.

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With just weeks before the public launch of Windows 8, users are five times less likely to be running the new OS than they were Windows 7 at the same point in its countdown, an analytics firm said ...