It's not your imagination. Windows installation files have been creeping up in size. It might even be fair to call them ...

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

Microsoft pledges to move more Windows 11 components to the native WinUI framework to optimize memory usage and performance.

Microsoft's Windows 11 insider builds let you preview and try upcoming new features and settings. Here are my five favorites this year so far and how you can check them out.

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 ...

VanArsdel is an end-to-end sample built to showcase the Microsoft Fluent Design System as well as other capabilities of the Universal Windows Platform. It allows the user to browse the virtual "store" ...

At the Build conference, Microsoft announced the Surface RTX Spark Dev Box, a mini-PC built for local AI development, training jobs, and agentic pipelines. Powered by Nvidia’s new Spark ARM processor ...

Google AI Studio lets users test Gemini models, build apps, generate media, and export code. Here’s what it does, costs, and where it falls short. For years, building software meant setting up local ...

A fourth wave of the "GlassWorm" campaign is targeting macOS developers with malicious VSCode/OpenVSX extensions that deliver trojanized versions of crypto wallet applications. Extensions in the ...

At its Build 2025 conference, Microsoft open sourced a number of apps and tools, including a new command-line text editor for Windows called Edit. Open source software may not earn the company direct ...

Free Community version, Professional version, and Enterprise edition. The Community edition is the free version of the software bundle and is least featured. But anyway, it gets your work done as a ...

Copilot in Excel introduces new finance-focused capabilities that help teams work to their standards, use trusted financial data, and stay in control of every change. GPT‑5.5 Instant is now available ...