Microsoft's fifth July update expands agent monitoring, adds offline speech transcription and changes Python environment management.

Spectral clustering is quite complex, but it can reveal patterns in data that aren't revealed by other clustering techniques. Data clustering is the process of grouping data items so that similar ...

Azure AI Studio is now generally available, emerging from preview on day one of the Microsoft Build 2024 developer conference. Azure AI Studio serves as a cloud-based platform -- akin to an IDE -- for ...

A hobby coder's rough return to Visual Studio highlights how IntelliSense, IntelliCode and GitHub Copilot have created several overlapping layers of code completion -- along with settings intended to ...

Microsoft kicked of its Build 2025 developer conference with a focus on agentic AI to mark the rapid transformation of software development that eliminates all that pesky human typing, if not ...

In the June 2025 update (v1.102), Microsoft Visual Studio Code puts GitHub Copilot front and center, with improvements spanning Copilot Chat, inline code completions, and editing workflows. These ...

Microsoft is devoting an unusual share of the early VS Code 1.131 Insiders cycle to built-in dictation, Voice Mode and other speech-driven development features.

Separate Oracle guides for Fusion AI Agent Studio and APEX development illustrate how VS Code has evolved from a popular editor into a foundation for an expanding range of developer experiences.

Is the original "AI pair programmer" helping developers be more productive? Several reports seeking to measure the impact of GitHub Copilot -- including one from GitHub itself -- have weighed in on ...

Microsoft's newly released Agent Framework Harness packages the loops, planning, memory, context management and safety controls that developers previously had to assemble around AI models themselves.

Microsoft is moving Agent Skills beyond bring-your-own instructions by shipping expert-authored workflows with the IDE, while keeping them off by default until testing shows their benefits justify the ...

With devs reeling from usage-based billing sticker shock, Visual Studio 18.9 makes monthly Copilot plan usage easier to reach from the coding workflow while adding more cost information to a ...