In .NET 7, we've finished the moving the thread pool to be fully managed. The timer queue and the windows IO thread pool have been moved to managed code.  

Visual Studio Code, ever growing in popularity and flexibility, has been named by Google as a first-class code editor for working with the company's Flutter SDK and Dart programming language for mobile development.  

REDMOND, Wash. —June 4, 2018—Microsoft Corp. on Monday announced it has reached an agreement to acquire GitHub, the world’s leading softwareh development platform where more than 28 million developers learn, share and collaborate to create the future. Together, the two companies will empower developers to achieve more at every stage of the development lifecycle, accelerate enterprise use of GitHub, and bring Microsoft’s developer tools and services to new audiences. 

Microsoft is planning to make Windows 10 PCs work without passwords. While the company has been working on removing passwords from Windows 10 and its Microsoft Accounts for a number of months now, the next major update to Windows 10 next year will go one step further.

Blisk is a first developer-oriented browser. It provides businesses with a development workspace for the teams and freelancers to develop and test modern web applications twice faster.

There are a variety of ways to determine what programming language is most popular. One is to do surveys and simply ask people what they think is most popular. We've done that on our developer sites. Another method is using the Tiobe index listings. 

We’re excited to announce a new open source project on GitHub from the WCF team at Microsoft.  This new version of WCF targets .NET Core and has been donated to the family of .NET Foundation open source projects.