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

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

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 ...

With Visual Studio Code 1.107, developers can use GitHub Copilot and custom agents together and delegate work across local, ...

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 previews a GitHub Copilot-powered VS Code Insiders tool that modernizes JavaScript/TypeScript apps by upgrading npm ...

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, ...

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