InfoWorld

Getting started with GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio or VS Code

The way software is developed has undergone multiple sea changes over the past few decades. From assembly language to cloud-native development, from monolithic architecture to microservices, from ...
Visual Studio Magazine

GitHub Ships Early December Copilot Updates Across Spaces, Visual Studio and Model Options

GitHub kicked off this month with a cluster of GitHub Copilot updates spanning the Copilot Spaces collaboration surface, the Visual Studio IDE experience, and the available model lineup in Copilot ...
Hosted on MSN

VS Code update sparks backlash over default Copilot commit tags

Microsoft’s Visual Studio Code 1.118 has drawn sharp criticism for automatically adding a “Co-Authored-by: Copilot” tag to Git commits by default, even for some users not actively using Copilot. The ...
Visual Studio Magazine

VS 2026 Joins VS Code with Integrated Cloud Agent: Assign a Task, Close the IDE, Get a PR

Visual Studio 2026 has further integrated GitHub Copilot's cloud agent to its Copilot Chat picker -- catching up to VS Code -- and the async workflow it enables, where a task runs on GitHub Actions ...
Hosted on MSN

Microsoft reverses Copilot auto-attribution in VS Code after backlash

Microsoft has rolled back a Visual Studio Code update that automatically added 'Co-authored-by: Copilot' to Git commits, even when the AI tool was not used. The reversal, in version 1.119, follows ...