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Microsoft’s Copilot has just taken a major step: OpenAI’s GPT‑5 is now embedded across the Copilot family—consumer Copilot, Microsoft 365 Copilot, GitHub Copilot, Copilot Studio and Azure AI Foundry—bringing real‑time model routing, deeper reasoning for complex tasks, and notably larger context...

In a landmark move for the developer and AI communities, OpenAI’s GPT-5 is now available in public preview across all paid GitHub Copilot plans, redefining the very concept of AI coding assistance. Touted as the biggest leap yet for developer productivity, GPT-5’s integration with GitHub...

Enterprises have long faced difficult decisions regarding software infrastructure, particularly those entrenched in Microsoft’s .NET ecosystem. Historically, running .NET applications meant being bound to Microsoft’s licensing costs, patching cycles, and a tight dependency on Windows Server...

The software development world experienced a seismic shift at Microsoft Build 2025, marked most notably by the launch of the fully autonomous GitHub Copilot coding agent and several complementary innovations. The event not only captured developer imagination with futuristic AI capabilities, but...

In a bold demonstration of its growing integration of artificial intelligence into developer workflows, Microsoft has revealed a new GitHub Copilot AI agent designed to handle coding tasks autonomously, promising to reshape how programmers tackle both everyday and complex problems. The...

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...

Silent failures in software systems are among the most insidious and costly issues that can befall users and developers alike, especially when subtle configuration choices lead to unpredictable time delays. The Windows community is all too familiar with these types of inefficiencies, and one...

For years, developers faced a rigid ecosystem where the choice of programming language often dictated the Integrated Development Environment (IDE) they could use. From Java’s long-standing partnership with Eclipse to Python developers flocking to PyCharm, language tooling was a strong linchpin...

The digital transformation sweeping across the landscape of software and development has taken another leap forward. Recent advancements highlight how generative AI models—namely OpenAI’s ChatGPT—are penetrating the heart of coding productivity tools, bringing direct in-editor code editing...

Hello Windows Insiders! It’s that time again! We’re getting ready to start releasing new builds from our Development Branch. And just like before after the release of a new Windows 10 update, you won’t see many big noticeable changes or new features in new builds just yet. That’s because right...

Visual Studio 2017 is the most powerful Universal Windows Platform development environment. It brings unparalleled productivity improvements, a streamlined acquisition experience and enhanced debugging tools for Universal Windows Platform developers. Try out Visual Studio 2017 today...

Hello Windows Insiders! THANK YOU for helping us release the Windows 10 Anniversary Update to our customers last week! We couldn’t have done it without you. Now that the Windows 10 Anniversary Update (Build 14393) has been released to our customers, it has replaced the Windows 10 November...

Hi everyone, Today we are releasing Windows 10 Insider Preview Build 11082 to Windows Insiders in the Fast ring. With this build, you won’t see big noticeable changes or new features just yet. Right now, the team is focused on product improvements based on the feedback we’re hearing on the...