Editor's take: Microsoft has long been the financial lifeline of OpenAI, but its growing reliance on Anthropic's models suggests that loyalty may be giving way to performance. By favoring Anthropic in ...

Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. Visual Studio Code now has a new auto AI model selector that favors Claude 4 over GPT-5. is a senior editor and ...

What if your favorite coding tool just got smarter, faster, and more intuitive? That’s exactly what the latest update to Visual Studio Code (VS Code) promises. With a bold focus on AI integration, ...

Visual Studio Code includes built-in integration with GitHub Copilot and the ability to choose which AI model to use for code completions. But the latest Visual Studio Code version adds a new ...

If you’re a GitHub Copilot user on an individual plan, there’s good news. Microsoft has added auto model selection to Visual Studio Code’s chat feature in the August 2025 (v1.104) update. Instead of ...

Microsoft has released the first version of Visual Studio 2026, introducing a major overhaul of its flagship IDE centered on AI, speed, and a modern user interface. Available through a new “Insiders ...

Cybersecurity researchers have called attention to a cyber attack in which unknown threat actors deployed an open-source endpoint monitoring and digital forensic tool called Velociraptor, illustrating ...

The Java ecosystem has historically been blessed with great IDEs to work with, including NetBeans, Eclipse and IntelliJ from JetBrains. However, in recent years Microsoft's Visual Studio Code editor ...

If you often make system-level changes in Windows, you’ll sometimes need to open the Command Prompt with administrator privileges. You can do this from Windows Search by right-clicking the Command ...

Crashes occur during the initial IDE startup when loading extensions or caches, immediately after installing updates (e.g., .NET upgrades or Visual Studio patches), or during specific actions such as ...

Visual Studio is Microsoft’s flagship integrated development environment (IDE) for software developers of all kinds, but it hasn’t received a major upgrade in several years. But if a new report in ...