Last month, Microsoft released a modern remake of its classic MS-DOS Editor, bringing back a piece of computing history that first appeared in MS-DOS 5.0 back in 1991. The new open source tool, built ...

Thomas Dohmke, who has been leading Microsoft GitHub since 2021, is leaving the company. Since Dohmke took over GitHub as CEO, the unit has more than doubled its user base. GitHub will keep operating ...

Developers who rely on GitHub Copilot now face a real choice between coding models built by Microsoft, Google, OpenAI, and Anthropic, all competing inside the same editor. At Build 2026, Microsoft’s ...

Microsoft used its Build 2026 keynote to ship a coding AI model built entirely in-house, a direct move to reduce its dependence on OpenAI for one of its most widely used developer products. The model, ...

Microsoft says TypeScript 7, announced July 8, brings native Go performance to VS Code, Visual Studio and other editors.

What if the tools you’ve relied on for years suddenly became something entirely different? That’s the reality developers are waking up to as Visual Studio Code, once heralded as a lightweight and ...

Microsoft has released the source code for the GitHub Copilot Chat extension for VS Code under the MIT license. This provides the community access to the full implementation of the chat-based coding ...

You're currently following this author! Want to unfollow? Unsubscribe via the link in your email. Microsoft is working on a major upgrade of its flagship software ...

According to Microsoft, the decision to open source GitHub Copilot Chat stems from a growing demand for transparency in how AI-assisted developer tools work -- particularly around prompt engineering, ...

Visual Studio Code is moving to weekly releases. Microsoft will replace the long-standing monthly update cycle with smaller weekly updates, starting with version 1.111, to deliver features more ...

Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...