Microsoft and its allies make a quiet advance in pushing C#, a competitor to Java and a foundation for the company's next-generation Internet services. Written by Stephen Shankland, Contributor ...

As the Sun vs. Microsoft battle over Java drags on, Windows developers wonder if it's time to write off J++ and adopt Microsoft's 'Java killer,' C#.

Java was able to drive a wedge into Microsoft's tools business when it was first introduced in the mid-1990s because it offered more power than Visual Basic and less complexity than other ...

Microsoft, which has long crowed "we use more Java than one can imagine," has been busy improving related tooling and functionality, yesterday introducing the "Reliable Web App Pattern for Java" among ...

Java inventor James Gosling says he isn't losing much sleep over Microsoft these days, despite the software giant's effort to stem Java's popularity with its own Java-like language.

You might be a Java purist, but as Microsoft's .Net grows more popular so does the demand to migrate Java or Visual J++ (VJ++) applications to Visual J# or Visual C#. Several existing client ...

Overall, Visual Studio Code is very good as a Java IDE if you install the Extension Pack for Java. It’s merely OK as a Java editor without the extension pack, as becomes obvious when you run ...

Microsoft has released another update of its Java on Visual Studio Code, the package of extensions used by Redmond's lightweight source code editor to support Java coding, testing and debugging. The ...