Visual Studio Magazine

Visual Studio July Update Brings Copilot Agent and Built-In Skills

Microsoft's July release adds a Copilot Chat agent preview, workload-specific skills, shared instructions, branch context and C++ build controls.
Visual Studio Magazine

Dev Revisits Visual Studio After Nearly a Decade, Gets Lost in AI-Era Completion Maze

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 lands Visual Studio Code 1.130 with agent rearchitecturing0 0

Visual Studio Code 1.130 is the latest weekly update from Microsoft. The company focused heavily on agents in this update.
Microsoft News

Microsoft and Mistral expand strategic partnership to give enterprises and regulated industries frontier AI they can control

Category: Company News; Microsoft and Mistral expand strategic partnership to give enterprises and regulated industries frontier AI they can control As Mistral is e ...
Forbes

Microsoft Builds Its Own AI Stack To Cut OpenAI Dependence

This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. This voice experience is generated by AI. Learn more. Microsoft spent two days at Build 2026 making the case that it no longer wants to rent the ...