Editing Microsoft Developer Network (section)

{{Short description|Microsoft forum for developers and testers}}
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'''Microsoft Developer Network''' ('''MSDN''') was the division of [[Microsoft]] responsible for managing the firm's relationship with developers and testers, such as hardware developers interested in the [[operating system]] (OS), and software developers developing on the various OS platforms or using the API or scripting languages of Microsoft's applications. The relationship management was situated in assorted media: [[web site]]s, [[newsletter]]s, [[developer conference]]s, trade media, [[blog]]s and [[DVD]] distribution.{{Citation needed|date=August 2020}}

Starting in January 2020, the website was fully integrated with [[Microsoft Docs]] (itself integrated into [[Microsoft Learn]] in 2022).<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/welcome-to-docs|title=Welcome to docs.microsoft.com|author=kexugit|website=docs.microsoft.com|access-date=2019-12-29}}</ref>