Potentially helping developers more quickly build cross-platform applications, Microsoft is releasing as open source its WinJS JavaScript library for building Windows-styled controls. Now that the ...

Microsoft continued its historic open source efforts by announcing it will donate the technology behind its Chakra JavaScript engine to the community -- and solicit outside help in making it cross ...

Microsoft open sources ChakraCore, Windows 10's Edge web browser JavaScript engine. More amazing still, Microsoft will port it to Ubuntu Linux.

To show off what EdgeHTML can do, Microsoft has built a browser using predominantly JavaScript, HTML, and CSS. Next, the company released the app on the Windows Store and the sample code on GitHub .

At release, the code will be Windows-only, but Microsoft will be working to make ChakraCore cross-platform—just as it did when making .NET open source. The broader plan is to ensure the engine ...