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 ...

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 ...

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

If you’re a GitHub Copilot user on an individual plan, there’s good news. Microsoft has added auto model selection to Visual Studio Code’s chat feature in the August 2025 (v1.104) update. Instead of ...

Microsoft has released the first version of Visual Studio 2026, introducing a major overhaul of its flagship IDE centered on AI, speed, and a modern user interface. Available through a new “Insiders ...

Although Visual Studio Code is a very useful lightweight code editor, it is actually vanilla Visual Studio that is Microsoft's flagship integrated development environment (IDE). As such, Microsoft ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

A new study of integrated development environments (IDEs) like Microsoft Visual Studio Code, Visual Studio, IntelliJ IDEA, and Cursor has revealed weaknesses in how they handle the extension ...

Would you trust an AI agent to run unverified code on your system? For developers and AI practitioners, this question isn’t just hypothetical—it’s a critical challenge. The risks of executing ...

Microsoft announced during its Build 2025 keynote that it will open source GitHub Copilot in Visual Studio Code, its lightweight, cross-platform code editor, while adding a plethora of new features to ...

Microsoft announced that Visual Studio and Visual Studio Code now have a collective 50 million monthly active users (MAUs). “I’m thrilled to share that we’ve hit an incredible milestone together: 50 ...