Microsoft today announced it has started delivering Kinect for Windows v2 Developer Preview kits to developers who signed up for the $399 program. The Developer Preview includes a pre-release Kinect ...

Microsoft's Windows Phone 8 SDK is now expected around the time Windows Phone 8 itself launches, which is expected to be October 29. Mary Jo Foley has covered the tech industry for 30 years for a ...

The long-awaited software developer kit for the Surface tabletop computer will be made available to those attending Microsoft's Professional Developer Conference at the end of the month. Microsoft ...

A C compiler and development system for DOS/Windows applications from Microsoft. It includes the Windows Software Development Kit (SDK). Version 7.0 added C++ capability and Version 1.0 of the ...

Object-oriented languages are particularly well suited to application development — in part because they’re well suited to software modeling. An application programming interface (API) such as the ...