Microsoft has opened its C++ AMP specification so it can also be used by non-Microsoft compilers to harness the power of GPUs (graphics processing units). “What we see is more and more people are ...

Microsoft is developing an advanced code optimizer for its Visual C++ compiler back end to improve performance and code size. Visual C++ is Microsoft’s variant of the still-popular general-purpose ...

If your company develops desktop applications for Windows, you're probably using Visual C++. This version of C++ contains special functions and objects to handle the Windows environment. These files, ...

It's just one facet of the recent Visual Studio 2015 Update 1 release, but it's one that Visual C++ developers are excited to deploy. The update also includes numerous fixes to the standard library.

"Monaco," Microsoft's browser-based Visual Studio dev environment, isn't the only codenamed technology that Microsoft demonstrated during its Visual Studio 2013 launch in New York. Microsoft execs ...

Alongside bringing better touch support and automatic ad-blocking for 'intrusive' ads to the desktop version of Chrome, Google is also making some changes to its browser under the hood. The company is ...

Most of the major C++ compilers are similar in speed, Clang is not really much faster or slower than VC++ (or GCC for most tasks). Intel produces a compiler which does generally generate a faster ...

Windows 10 security: 'So good, it can block zero-days without being patched' Systems running the Windows 10 Anniversary Update were shielded from two exploits even before Microsoft had issued patches ...