The Microsoft .NET initiative is all-encompassing, ever-present, and in certain ways, brand-new—but the underlying technologies have been with us for some time. In this article, we’ll explore the ...

Overview: Modern .NET evolved from .NET Core and supports cross-platform cloud development environments.NET Framework remains widely used in legacy enterprise s ...

With the release last year of .NET 5, Microsoft switched its platform development away from the 20-year-old .NET Framework to the newer, cross-platform, open source .NET Core. The .NET Framework has ...

Mike Ricciuti joined CNET in 1996. He is now CNET News' Boston-based executive editor and east coast bureau chief, serving as department editor for business technology and software covered by CNET ...

COMMENTARY--NET is a difficult technology to explain to non-programmers because .NET is developer-oriented technology. Many of the features of .NET don't make sense unless you know a lot about ...

But times have changed. Today, Shiah's career path finds him at the helm of his own software firm, Ascentn, a business-process management (BPM) vendor in Mountain View, Calif. Despite an abiding love ...

Once viewed as the nemesis of open source — and probably still seen that way by some — Microsoft on Thursday nonetheless continued its week of gestures toward the open source community. At its Build ...

The Sacramento County Sheriff's Department wanted its deputies to get out of their cars and interact directly with the community. But to do this effectively, officers would have to take their ...