Latest VS Code update introduces prepackaged bundles of chat customizations that can include skills, commands, agents, MCP servers, and hooks.

Microsoft has just released its 5th consumer technical preview of Visual Studio 2015, introducing numerous new additions to its popular software development tools. Similar to the way the software ...

Expression Design 4, Microsoft’s vector graphics design tool, has been quietly killed and is no longer available for sale nor will there be any new versions developed by Microsoft. The software is now ...

The VS Code 1.110 cycle is putting more 'hands-on' capabilities into chat, led by native browser integration that lets AI agents interact with page elements, capture screenshots, and pull real-time ...

This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...

Touted as an “AI-native intelligent development environment,” Visual Studio 2026 features performance and user experience improvements in addition to AI-powered debugging, profiling, and more. Visual ...

Treat this as an immediate security incident, CISOs advised; researchers say it’s one of the most sophisticated supply chain attacks they’ve seen, and it’s spreading. A month after a self-propagating ...

Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Researchers have created a microphone that listens with light instead of sound. Unlike traditional microphones, this visual microphone captures tiny vibrations on the surfaces of objects caused by ...

Visual Studio is Microsoft’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for software developers of all kinds, but it hasn’t received a major upgrade in several years. But if a new report in ...

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