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 ...

VS Code 1.127 enhances agent session management, introduces per-site browser permissions, and makes browser tools for agents ...

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 ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 detailed how 2025 became the year coding agents took over Visual Studio Code, leading to a unified agent experience that centralizes all AI-driven assistants inside the editor. In a Nov. 5 ...

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 ...

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