With progress slowing to a crawl, I researched Windows App SDK alternatives and then started experimenting with AI pair programming.

The agency still offers a Free File program that works with commercial tax software firms. Some companies also offer free tools for certain filers.

This head-to-head test compared Amazon Q Developer and GitHub Copilot Pro using a real-world editorial workflow to evaluate their performance as 'agentic' assistants beyond simple coding. Both tools ...

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Microsoft announced that the Copilot Studio extension for the Visual Studio Code (VS Code) integrated development environment is now available to all users. Developers can use it to build and manage ...

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A campaign involving 19 Visual Studio (VS) Code extensions that embed malware inside their dependency folders has been uncovered by cybersecurity researchers. Active since February 2025 but identified ...

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 ...

Aa OpenAI is looking beyond Microsoft for cloud services, Microsoft is quietly updating its AI strategy inside Visual Studio Code. As reported by TheVerge, a new feature called automatic model ...

Microsoft yesterday launched Visual Studio 2026 Insiders. With this launch, the company is giving its flahship IDE one of the biggest update yet. As noted in the announcement post, the latest release ...