Microsoft has even developed a framework whereby Hadoop MapReduce big data jobs can be written in JavaScript. Visual Basic and C# are not part of this framework; I guess there's always an exception to ...

Microsoft's Excel team takes to Reddit to answer questions and reassure users that yes, you can open up more than one Excel window at the same time.

Roslyn features open source C# and Visual Basic compilers offering code analysis APIs. DuoCode is another tool for compiling to JavaScript without actually writing JavaScript.

Redmond Review JavaScript's Ascendance Within Microsoft By Andrew J. Brust 08/31/2012 JavaScript has been part of the Microsoft technology stable since the 1990s, and its prominence in the next wave ...