Developers trained in Microsoft Visual Studio can stay within their preferred IDE, while using their existing skills and .

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Microsoft had written a Nvidia compiler into Visual Studio and the Microsoft operating system has proven popular for GPU developers.

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Don't make the mistake of regarding ELF as the equivalent of Visual Basic script in Microsoft Office.

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The big winner in PCs was Microsoft, which spent millions on developer conferences and Visual Basic, its software toolkit for developers.

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Microsoft also said that only a few of the visual changes in Windows 8 will be present in the Release Preview scheduled for release next month.

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Microsoft Research architect Jaron Lanier, a pioneer in virtual reality and visual computing, is starting a new lab in San Francisco dedicated to developing new kinds of computation, based on tactile and motor experiences.

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Support for a slew of Microsoft Web tools and technologies, including Active Server Pages, Office 2000, Visual Basic Script and FrontPage 2000.

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Developers at Microsoft have revived the dream through Project Austin, a Windows 8 app based around the visual concept of a notebook.

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