GOLD COAST, Australia — Aug. 31, 2005 — Today at Microsoft® Tech•Ed Australia, Microsoft Corp. announced that Valve Corp.®, creator of award-winning game franchises “Half-Life®” and “Counter-StrikeTM, ...

C++ was ratified as a language standard by ISO/ANSI in 1997. Microsoft’s extensive history with C++ began in 1992 with the Microsoft C/C++ 7.0 compiler, which became Visual C++ in 1993. Visual C++ ...