
Microsoft is working on a new development language, called 'D,' which will make it easier to model applications, Mary Jo Foley at ZDNet reports.
Her post describes D as a "declarative language aimed at non-developers."
Modeling and end-user programming are big themes in Microsoft's development tools work.
By creating models of applications, developers can speed up their development time and make it easier to deploy and operate those applications once they are live.
End-user programming, a long-held idea, is getting more realistic in the days of mashups where people combine data from different Web feeds onto a single Web page.
Last year, Microsoft's developer group released Popfly which is a mash-up builder. It's a visual application creation tool, but it's also meant to introduce basic concepts of programming.

Microsoft announced its financial results for Q3 of fiscal year 2026, including an update on its gaming Xbox business and more.
Not looking good. Hopefully Asha Sharma is able to turn Phil’s disaster around.
To me it's still quite remarkable how they can cash-in 5.3bn in revenue in a single quarter, since their hardware is basically dead.

Thanks to the slip-up of an artist working on the title, we now have more evidence that a new Injustice game is in the works.

Spiders: "We're going to cut straight to the chase so you're not left wondering: After a long period without clear answers, we have received confirmation that Spiders is being liquidated.
What does it mean? This means the company as a whole no longer exists. We'll cease our functions immediately. The planned DLC will release via Nacon, and then-- well, that's it.
We're sorry that it's come to this and would like to thank each and every one of you for your support over the years.
If you have any questions or run into issues with your games, please contact Nacon directly as we'll no longer be able to reply."
Chuck Norris is spelled with C. Therefore no letter is better than C.
D...everybody wants to get away from C but still connects to it somehow. All these new attempts pretty much failed so far. Can't imagine, it will work this time. BTW, if so, people would want to check out rebol ( http://www.rebol.com/ ). At least they came up with a real name.
So i'm gonna take a wild guess and say this is the evolution of the C language?lol I don't program but whatever makes it easier i'm all for. Go MS