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Playwright was announced by Microsoft in January 2020. [11] It was developed to address the need for a unified API for cross-browser testing and to overcome limitations in existing tools like Puppeteer and Selenium. A team of engineers, including those who had previously worked on Puppeteer at Google, contributed to its development. [12]
In content management systems, the terms frontend and backend may refer to the end-user facing views of the CMS and the administrative views, respectively. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] In speech synthesis , the frontend refers to the part of the synthesis system that converts the input text into a symbolic phonetic representation, and the backend converts the ...
Visual Studio Code was first announced on April 29, 2015 by Microsoft at the 2015 Build conference. A preview build was released shortly thereafter. [14]On November 18, 2015, the project "Visual Studio Code — Open Source" (also known as "Code — OSS"), on which Visual Studio Code is based, was released under the open-source MIT License and made available on GitHub.
The Windows Package Manager (also known as winget) is a free and open-source package manager designed by Microsoft for Windows 10 and Windows 11. It consists of a command-line utility and a set of services for installing applications. [5] [6] Independent software vendors can use it as a distribution channel for their software packages.
Windows UI Library (WinUI codenamed "Jupiter", [3] [4] and also known as UWP XAML and WinRT XAML) is a user interface API that is part of the Windows Runtime programming model that forms the backbone of Universal Windows Platform apps (formerly known as Metro-style or Immersive) for the Windows 8, Windows 8.1, Windows 10 and Windows Phone 8.1 operating systems.
Orleans was originally created by the eXtreme Computing Group at Microsoft Research [2] and introduced the virtual actor model as a new approach to building distributed systems for the cloud. Orleans scales from a single on-premises server to highly-available and globally distributed applications in the cloud.
Learn how to download and install or uninstall the Desktop Gold software and if your computer meets the system requirements.
Microsoft, a tech company historically known for its opposition to the open source software paradigm, turned to embrace the approach in the 2010s. From the 1970s through 2000s under CEOs Bill Gates and Steve Ballmer, Microsoft viewed the community creation and sharing of communal code, later to be known as free and open source software, as a threat to its business, and both executives spoke ...