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In a dramatic turn that underscores the rapidly shifting landscape of artificial intelligence, Windsurf’s CEO Varun Mohan and key researchers from the buzzworthy AI coding assistant startup have opted to join Google DeepMind, ending months of speculation about a possible acquisition by OpenAI...

Schneider Electric has unveiled its latest innovation in industrial automation: the AI-powered Copilot, developed in collaboration with Microsoft. This generative AI assistant is designed to enhance productivity, streamline operations, and address the growing skills gap in the industrial sector...

GitHub Copilot, the latest collaboration between GitHub and OpenAI, signals a new era for developers seeking efficiency and innovation in software creation. The technical preview of this AI-powered tool, built atop OpenAI's Codex, isn’t just another programmer’s helper—it represents a bold step...

Artificial intelligence continues to dominate the tech landscape, often accompanied by headlines forecasting the imminent replacement of human coders with AI-driven software development tools. Yet, as the hype crescendos, a forceful reality check comes from none other than Mark Russinovich...

In a transformative move for the industrial automation sector, Schneider Electric has officially unveiled its industrial generative AI copilot, developed through a strategic collaboration with Microsoft. This innovation stands at the intersection of artificial intelligence and industrial...

Notepad, that humble companion of Windows users for well over three decades, is stepping into a dramatically reimagined future. What was once a simple, bare-bones text editor now stands on the threshold of an AI-powered transformation, signaling one of the most profound upgrades in the history...

As OpenAI accelerates its update cadence for conversational AI, users of ChatGPT are now encountering a new era driven by the arrival of GPT-4.1 and its lighter sibling, GPT-4.1 mini. The adoption of these models in ChatGPT marks another significant—if subtly evolutionary—chapter in the ongoing...

In a world where AI-driven innovation is fundamentally altering the career landscape for developers, Amazon’s covert initiative, codenamed Kiro, could mark a turning point for the industry. Internal documents recently surfaced, confirming that Kiro is not merely another marginal upgrade to...

There was a time, not so long ago, when the idea of an AI assistant coding alongside us humans brought to mind visions of digital utopia. Or at the very least, the promise of an extra pair of hands, or digits, shoveling through the mind-numbing trenches of developer drudgery. Alas, as recently...

The advent of the o3 and o4-mini models on the Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service marks a thrilling leap into the next generation of AI reasoning. These latest entries in the o-series, unveiled within Azure AI Foundry and GitHub, don't merely build upon past versions—they shatter previous benchmarks...

A New Era for AI on Azure Microsoft’s latest announcement in the realm of artificial intelligence makes waves across the tech landscape. The introduction of the GPT-4.1 series—including the standard GPT-4.1, and its streamlined variants, GPT-4.1-mini and GPT-4.1-nano—marks a transformative...

Today, we released a new Windows 10 Preview Build of the SDK to be used in conjunction with Link Removed (Build 17758 or greater). The Preview SDK Build 17758 contains bug fixes and under development changes to the API surface area. The Preview SDK can be downloaded from the Link Removed. For...

A new open-sourced tool is now available for the Windows Application Driver (WinAppDriver) community: the WinAppDriver UI Recorder tool. This tool will enable users to easily create automated UI tests. For those of you not familiar with WinAppDriver, it is a UI automation service for Windows 10...

Today, we are pleased to announce the next evolution in your File → New Universal Windows Platform app in Visual Studio – Windows Template Studio. Windows Template Studio addresses a top community ask in our developer survey to make it easier and provide guidance to create new projects that...

In today’s post, we’re covering how PC software can leverage the rich functionality of Windows 10. This is valuable background for the upcoming post “Adding UWP Features to Your Existing PC Software with the Desktop Bridge,” which will go into even more detail on the topic in the coming days...

Building Windows 10 IoT? Then you'll want to check out the Link Removed and Brian Rockwell's great post on how to use it... Link Removed AllJoyn® in Windows® 10 An AllJoyn® development toolkit to quick-start AllJoyn® development. The AllSeen Alliance created AllJoyn® to empower the Internet...

Microsoft has a long history of collaborating with industry technology leaders to bring the world the best-in-class PC and device experiences. These efforts now also extend to enhancements in the web browsing experience as well. Intel is a great example of a key technology partner who is...

In this episode, Deepesh Mohnani of the WCF RIA Services team discusses all of the new features introduced since the initial RIA Services release. These include expanded localization support, improved MVVM support, Windows Azure table storage, datetimeoffset, operation tag, jQuery client, and...