At its Ignite conference, Microsoft today announced an update to Excel that brings a new JavaScript API to the venerable spreadsheet app. With this new API, developers will be able to create custom ...

is a senior correspondent and author of Notepad, who has been covering all things Microsoft, PC, and tech for over 20 years. Microsoft Excel used to only allow two types of data: text and numbers.

Standards proposal would allow annotations to be checked by external type checkers like TypeScript but treated as comments by the JavaScript engine. Microsoft is backing a proposal to bring optional ...

Node has traditionally been focused on Google's V8 JavaScript engine, but adding ChakraCore support will allow developers to target more platforms Microsoft on Tuesday submitted a pull request to Node ...

The Edge browser that comes with Windows 10 shows a marked improvement in performance, particularly in the area of JavaScript performance. Now Microsoft wants to amp up performance even more, and is ...

Microsoft is previewing a new AI-assisted tool for Visual Studio Code Insiders called the JavaScript/TypeScript Modernizer. It's designed to help developers modernize older JavaScript or TypeScript ...

The JavaScript and TypeScript toolkit Bun has been released in version 1.1 with a number of improvements. These include support for Windows 10 and higher, as well as optimised performance. Despite the ...