Public preview of Microsoft’s C++ tools for the AI coding assistant are available in Visual Studio 2026 Insiders.

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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, ...

Google Cloud announced a new AI-powered coding assistant to challenge the multiple Copilot tools that Microsoft has infused into its Azure platform and just about every other thing it sells. Microsoft ...

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 ...

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 ...

Planned Java-related improvements for VS Code range from smarter code completion and better debugging to deeper integration with Kubernetes and cloud services. Looking to bolster the appeal of Visual ...

As we have reported before, Microsoft's super-popular Visual Studio Code is the No. 1 code editor for multiple programming languages, and Google's Go is on that list. The Go Project team last week ...

In February, the Trump administration barred AP reporters and photographers from covering White House events for not obeying the president’s executive order renaming the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

To use Microsoft Editor in Edge browser, you need to first sign in with your Microsoft account. But before that, you should add the extension to the Edge toolbar to make it more convenient to access ...

Coding has been one of the mainstays of computing, right from the reason for computers to exist, to the foundation for all the applications we use on these machines today. Until quite recently, most ...