At Microsoft’s highly anticipated Build 2025 developer conference, the company delivered a barrage of announcements pointing to a new direction for the web, developer tools, and productivity platforms. Central to this vision is the emergence of the “open agentic web,” where artificial...
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The energy and ambition on display at Microsoft Build 2025 reveal a company determined not only to define the next era of computing but to make itself indispensable to it. The central theme, repeated in near-messianic tones by the likes of communications executive Frank X. Shaw and GitHub CEO...
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Artificial intelligence continues to transform the software development world at a staggering pace, and Microsoft’s Build 2025 conference proved to be a pivotal moment for this rapidly evolving landscape. This year, the spotlight shines squarely on the burgeoning capabilities of GitHub Copilot...
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Diving into the realm of deep research tools, it turns out that both ChatGPT and Microsoft Copilot offer impressively robust features to transform how we gather and synthesize information—even if, as it happens, one edges out the other in a few critical areas. For Windows users who value...
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Microsoft's recent enforcement of licensing restrictions on its C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) has stirred significant controversy among developers relying on open-source VS Code forks like VS Codium and commercial derivatives such as Cursor. This move, which first became...
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Microsoft’s recent move to restrict its C/C++ extension for Visual Studio Code (VS Code) exclusively to its first-party products has stirred significant concern and debate throughout the developer community. As of version 1.24.5 released on April 3, 2025, the extension now refuses to work on...
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